Kneelers (gable components)
Esquema
Jerarquía
Components (Hierarchy Name) > components (objects) > <components by specific context> > architectural elements > <structural elements and structural element components> > structural elements > enclosing structural elements > <walls and wall components> > wall components > <wall components by form or function> > <gables and gable components> > gable components
Descripción
Shaped building stones, with a flat bottom and sloping top, cut to conform to and support the copings of gables; for the more general meaning of blocks of stone placed in masonry walls to distribute the loads of beams, use "padstones."
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- inginocchiatoi (componenti di timpano) [it]
- sillars de arranque (componente de gablete) [es]
- kneeler (gable component) [en]
- footstones (gable components) [en]
- gable springers [en]
- kneestones [en]
- skew blocks [en]
- skew butts [en]
- skews [en]
- inginocchiatoio (componente di timpano) [it]
- sillares de arranque (componente de gablete) [es]
- sillar de arranque (componente de gablete) [es]