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Where several corbels are used together to support a roof, this is called a corbel table.
This unusual fourteenth-century Green Man is to be found on a corbel high on the north wall inside Pinchbeck church.
Falling just below the eaves, arcaded corbel tables are often found on the gabled facades of revival churches.
The sculpture is probably part of a corbel table, carved in continental style of high relief.
It is square below and circular after it clears the eaves of the roofs, and is finished off at the corbel table level with a conical roof.
On the outside of the church, there are blind arches resembling windows also known as corbel tables.
Note the articulation of the facade with arched corbel tables and pilaster strips.
Elements of the style include a broad, square tower, large chunky blocks, Norman or rounded arches, and corbel tables under the eaves.
The corbeling here forms a corbel table which assumes the appearance of a bracketed window sill.
Just below the corbel table and centrally placed is a louvred slit without dressings to illuminate the belfry.
The walls of the pool enclosure are running bond brick with a three-brick corbel at the top of the parapet wall.
Romanesque Revival buildings are characterized by round-arched windows, arched corbel tables, and one or two towers at the front facade.
The corbel jambs are adorned with oak leaves and rectangular molded panels.
Louis XV mantel of Pompadour style inspiration, however here the corbel jambs are canted.
The Governor General unveiled the sculptured corbel of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony in the Senate Foyer.
The oak leaves, here, drop upon the corbel shaped jambs, which are slightly curved and carved with molded grooves.
He will then unveil the corbel which will be added to the Sovereigns' Arches, located in front of the Senate Chamber.
That splendid, rambling rectory with its quirks, quorns and corbel tables, beyond the graveyard, had gone, and so, for that matter, had the graveyard itself.
There are fictive vaults, corbel tables, columns and windows.
Similar ingredients appear at Leuchars, where the choir and apse survive, both compartments heavily enriched with arcading and corbel table on the exterior.
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The corbel table around the presbytery and transept walls is bold and peculiar, and is of two patterns.
Sometimes, however, a parapet or pierced balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter.
A fine and noteworthy feature in this church is the corbel table which runs nearly all round it.
Above this is a corbel table of heads and mouldings which interferes with the upper window mouldings.
Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range.
You know how to lay a corbel, but just now you couldn't tell me how much cribbing was coming.
There is no triforium, its position being taken throughout the church by corbel tables in the form of human and animal faces.
Skew corbel, a stone placed at the base of the sloping side of a gable wall to resist any sliding tendency of the sloping coping.
We cross rivulets formerly spanned by bridges, of which bricks and a corbel vault are still visible.
Here we again find the boveda, the corbel roof, the pointed arch observed in previous buildings.
The reader will notice that in this monument the corbel vault is more convex, and recalls that of a ruinous palace at Palenque.
The word corbel, French corbeille, means literally a large flat basket.
There is a corbel table like it but more elaborate at Vezelay in Burgundy.
I'll be back at the office as soon as I get this corbel laid.
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