Looking at Buildings

Glossary

Lucarne: Small gabled opening in a roof or spire.
Luckenbooth: (Scots): Lock-up booth or shop.
Lugged: Of an architrave (a formalized lintel), with side projections at the top. Also called an eared architrave.
Lunette: Semicircular window or blind panel.
Lychgate: (lit. corpse-gate): Roofed gateway entrance to a churchyard for the reception of a coffin.
Lynchet: Long terraced strip of soil on the downward side of prehistoric and medieval fields, accumulated because of continual ploughing along the contours.