Glossary
- Shaft-ring
- A ring around a circular pier or a shaft attached to a pier, typical of the 12th and 13th centuries. Also called an annulet.
- Shaped gable
- A gable with curved sides.
- Sheila-na-gig
- Female fertility figure, usually with legs apart.
- Shell
- Thin, self-supporting roofing membrane of timber or concrete.
- Sheugh
- (Scots): A trench or open drain; a street gutter.
- Shingles
- Thin pieces of wood like overlapping tiles, used externally.
- Shouldered arch
- An arch with arcs in each corner and a flat centre or lintel.
- Shouldered architrave
- The moulded frame of a door or window with horizontal and vertical projections at the top angles.
- Shuttering
- Temporary framing of timber or metal used for casting concrete; also called formwork.
- Side purlins
- Pairs of longitudinal timbers placed some way up the slope of the roof, which carry common rafters.
