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kneelers (gable components)


Identification code: 300002323



Alternative term/s

  • footstones
  • gable springers
  • kneeler
  • kneestones
  • skew blocks
  • skew butts
  • skews

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Scope note:

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."

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