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projection beyond the face of the wall, and the coping isreturned on the sides of the notches.
Inclined coping is sometimes made without the astragal atthe top, and the soffit before the vertical face of the parapetperpendicular to the inclined face of the coping.
Coping over, is said of the soffit of a projecture from thenaked of a wall, when the soffit is inclined so as to make anacute angle with the vertical face of the wall below it; thatis, when the edge of the soffit in the surface of the wall, ornext to it, is higher, than the outer edge.
CORBEILS (from the Latin , corbis, a basket) a piece ofcarved work, representing baskets filled with flowers or fruit,to finish some ornament.
CORBEL , a term used by some for a niche or hollow ina wall, to contain a statue, bust, &c.
Corbel , a block of stone or other material projecting fromthe face of a wall, and used to support a superincumbentweight, such as the beams of a roof, ribs of vaulting, columns,and such like. The term is confined chiefly to such supportsemployed in Gothic architecture, in the buildings of whichstyles corbels occur very frequently; they perform somewhatof a similar office to the modillions or consoles used in Classicalbuildings, but their more perfect prototype is to be seen inthe projecting figures and heads supporting consoles, in theremains of the baths of Dioclesian, at Rome.
Corbels are usually carved in grotesque heads, animals,flowers, &c.; in the Romanesque style they are either simplesquare blocks with the face occasionally rounded, or carvedin the shape of grotesque heads; in the Early-pointed, thecorbels are sometimes moulded, and in the richer specimenscarved into knops of foliage; when heads or masks are used,they are not of such grotesque appearance as during the pre-ceding period; in the next style they are more frequentlyfoliaged, and in the Perpendicular carved in the form ofangels sometimes bearing shields and other devices; in thelater styles, the corbel is usually terminated above by amoulding, or series of mouldings, forming a kind of capital.Corbels of large dimensions, such as those supporting a groupof clustered columns, are generally very elaborately orna-mented in combinations of masses, or groups of foliagespringing from one or more points underneath, and clusteredtogether under the cap; sometimes groups of figures areintroduced, as in the beautiful specimens to be seen in ExeterCathedral .
Corbels are not unfrequent in castellated architecture, andwhen so employed are of a very massive character. Theyhave usually two of their sides vertical planes, perpendicularto the surface or face of the wall; and their other surfaces,which are their edges or fronts, quarters of cylindroids, withthe greater axis of their section perpendicular.
The edge of each corbel generally consists of one, two,and sometimes three convex rectilinear surfaces: when theedge of each bracket consists of two or three convex recti-linear surfaces, these surfaces are generally separated byfillets, which have vertical sides parallel to the face of thebuilding, and horizontal soffits.
Corbels are also a horizontal row of stones or timber,fixed in a wall, or in the side of a vault, for sustaining thetimbers of a floor, or those of a roof. Many of the timberfloors, or contignations, in old buildings, were thus supported;the timbers of the domic roof of St. Paul’s are tied to theconic vault by means of corbels. The ends of the corbelsare generally cut into a convex or ogee form.
Corbels, in the Caryatic order, are those parts upon theheads of the Caryatides, under the soffit of the architravecornice, that represent baskets, or rather cushions, and havean abacus, as in the Grecian orders.
The term is also used for the vase of the Concapital, it being in form of a basket. _ e nr
Corbel-Bole, a moulding, in Norman architect u *J n9 j S tsployed frequently to support a blocking course. R i atof two rows of billets or cubical blocks of stone disp t j,eintervals, and so arranged, that the blocks alternatetwo rows, a block coming under a space, and vice veBillet-Moulding. ter ” 5
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applied to steps up the sides of a gable; when the ofis formed into a kind of battlement, broken into gped'ledges, which converge from the eaves to the ape^- g c ot'mens are to be seen in many old houses, especially ^ ee f,land, Flanders, Holland, and Germany . They may j t) ofused perhaps for extinguishing fire, or escaping lrmerely for ornament. yggal®*
Corbel-Table, a series of corbels disposed « r 0 tb erintervals projecting from a wall, to support a parapet^ e» ve ,continuous projection, and frequently seen under 1 cai' vtof a roof. The corbels are occasionally plain, but ot ^ aba' pin the-shape of grotesque heads, and other devices,mentioned. Sometimes the corbels are connected .arches which intervene between them and the superand form its immediate support; these arches vary ^lik 1according to the style of architecture of the buildm ^ afi eA'
they are employed, as do also the corbels; in the jowstructures they are circular, during the next p er j eg iV elsecting, and lastly, pointed and trefoiled. Corbel ** 1,1......... ___ „ ti, <111 in !in ; if W)
more frequent in the Romanesque styles than in u, v q’|i e )in which they form a bold and effective featuiare found in a peculiar situation in many Loflffiaj^tures, running up the raking sides of the v f a to b‘S sethe gable; a singular instance of this position I sin the west gable of Adel Church, Yorkshire ,CORBETT, a word used by Harris, in hisa corbel. Corbetts, niches for images. tofl e9
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one from each face of the wall, may be used : 0l ’ u ppe reach tliorough-stone lay two stones level on 11 ob sel ' t |ihand one large stone in the core, lapped upon ho^j; Vthat the tails of the two lower stones be right-‘ ir, r. ] e teiy
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CORICEUM (from Kwpumor) in Grecianundressing-room belonging to the Gymnasium* ,
CORINTHIAN ORDER , the third ot ‘,.^1, ^Classical architecture, and the first of the
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which title we include the Corinthian ana ytwo orders might conveniently be classine rt . s ei”reasonably too, if we consider their g enel ‘ differ 9, eand also that some examples of the former e a ® f e ctfrom that which is considered their most p ^ C° a j.model, as do those which are included un e nt ,tior Roman order ; if both styles were conip^division, it would form a very distinct an j 0 rc\e r 'which might be entitled the Roman or l 1 °fined*
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