Definition of Crowstep. Meaning of Crowstep. Synonyms of Crowstep

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Definition of Crowstep

crowstep
Corbiestep Cor"bie*step`, n. (Arch.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.
Crowstep
Crowstep Crow"step` (kr?"st?p`), n. (Arch.) See Corriestep.

Meaning of Crowstep from wikipedia

- A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the...
- a garret. The tower, according to Petit's later drawing, was topped by crowstep gables, and surrounded by a walkway and bartizans (small turrets) at the...
- John Adey Repton. He added bays and replaced the windows although the crowstep gables with polygonal buttresses to the quoins are all survived from the...
- Gothic windows and a large tower which resembled a lift-shaft crowned with crowstep gables. The house was a blend of new building methods, “traditional” Scottish...
-  124. ISBN 07134-11422. Abbotsford (...), with its angle-turrets and crowsteps, foreshadows the early Victorian revival of the Scottish Baronial style ...
- turnpike stair to its left. There are four main storeys, and an attic with crowstep gables. The hall, on the first floor, is rib-vaulted in two bays, and has...
- the pilasters and elaborate capitals, c. 1835, on numbers 43–53, the crowsteps on number 23, and the "genteel elegance of number 6", which has a rusticated...
- construction, using local basalt with red sandstone for detailing, and finish at crowstep gables. Bartizans, or angle-turrets, are found at the north-west and south-east...
- Pylon, Step, Proto-Hegr, and Hegr are characterised by variations on the crowstep motif, combined with elements from classical architecture. Arch, Simple...
- it is harled with its margins pantiled. It has swept dormer heads and crowsteps, a front ashlar stair Anstruther tower (older than the lodge to which...