- architecture, a
corbel is a
structural piece of stone, wood or
metal jutting from a wall
to carry a superin****bent weight, a type of bracket. A
corbel is a solid...
- Look up
corbel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
corbel is a
piece of
stone jutting out of a wall
to carry weight. A
series of
corbelled pieces produce...
- windows. A
heavily corbelled semi-circular
stair turret,
corbelled out to square,
rises in the west re-entrant; it
provides access to a
watch room in the...
-
often crow-stepped.
Round towers supporting square garret chambers corbelled out over the
cylinder of
their main
bodies are
particular the
Scottish baronial...
- also
houses the
entrance to the castle, is
corbelled out at the top
to form a
gabled watch-chamber. The plan is
similar to Claypotts Castle and is amply...
- of
openings between a wall and a parapet,
formed by
corbelling out the latter,
allowing defenders to throw stones,
boiling water, and so forth, upon ****ailants...
- ashlar, most
distinguished by the use of it in the 4
turrets that are
corbelled out at each
corner of the building. The
original building is now a coffee...
- tower,
containing the
stair turret. The
turnpike stair is in a spiral,
corbelled out in the angle:
apparently more for
elegance than for necessity. There...
-
parapet with
eight crocketed pinnacles, the
middle one on each side
corbelled out. The
south doorway is Norman, with an
inner chamfered round arch with...
- It was
corbelled out on the
upper floors to form
square rooms, the
small stair turret to these upper rooms being carried on the
corbelling.
There were...
