_Corbel_.--An ornamental projection from the wall to support an arch, niche, beam, or other apparent weight. It is often a head or part of a figure. _Bands_.--Either small strings around shafts, or horizontal lines of square, round, and other formed panels, used to ornament spires, towers, and similar works. _Cornice_.--The tablet at the top of a wall, running under the battlement. It becomes a _Basement_ when at the bottom of it, and beneath this the wall is generally thicker. _Battlement_.--It may be indented or plain; sunk, panelled, or pierced. _Crockets_.--Small bunches of foliage, ornamenting canopies and pinnacles. _Canopies_.--Adorned drip-stones.--_Vide_ Dripstone. _Crypts_.--Vaulted chapels under some large churches, and a few small ones. _Crisps_.--Small arches; sometimes _double-feathered_, and according to the number of them in immediate connexion; they are termed _tre_-foils, _quatre_-foils, _cinque_-foils, &c. _Dripstone_.--The tablet running round doors and windows. _Featherings_ or _Foliations_.--Parts of tracery ornamented with small arches and points, are termed _Feathered_, or _Foliated_. _Finials_.--Large crockets surmounting canopies and pinnacles. This term is frequently applied to the whole pinnacle. _Machicolations_.--Projecting battlements, with intervals for discharging missiles on the heads of assailants. _Mullions_.--By these, windows are divided into lights. _Parapet_.--When walls are crowned with a parapet, it is straight at the top. _Pinnacle_.--A small spire, generally four-sided, and placed on the top of buttresses, &c., both exterior and interior. _Piers_.--Spaces in the interior of a building between the arches. _Rood Loft_.--In ancient churches, not collegiate, a screen between the nave and chancel was so called, which had on the top of it a large projection, whereon were placed certain images, especially those which composed the rood. _Set-offs_.--The mouldings and slopes dividing buttresses into stages. _Spandrells_.--Spaces, either plain or ornamented, between an arch and the square formed round it. _Stoups_.--The basins in niches, which held holy water. Near the altar in old churches, or where the altar has been, is sometimes found another niche, distinguished from the _stoup_, by having in it at the bottom, a small aperture for carrying off the water; it is often double with a place for bread. _Tabernacle-work_.--Ornamented open work over stalls; and generally any minute ornamental open-work. _Tablets_.--Small projecting mouldings or strings, mostly horizontal. _Tracery_.--Ornaments of the division at the heads of windows. _Flowing_, when the lines branch out into flowers, leaves, arches, &c. _Perpendicular_, when the mullions are continued through the straight lines. _Transoms_.--The horizontal divisions of windows and panelling.