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A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of A roads in zone 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 and A7 roads and west of the A1 (road beginning with 6).
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Accommodation bridge
An accommodation bridge or occupation bridge in the United Kingdom preserves a pre-existing private road, path or right of access when a major transport route is built across it.
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Aisle
An aisle is, in general (common), a space for walking with rows of seats on both sides or with rows of seats on one side and a wall on the other.
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All Saints Church, Marple
All Saints Church is in Church Lane, Marple, Greater Manchester, England.
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Allegory
As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
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Apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin absis: "arch, vault" from Greek ἀψίς apsis "arch"; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an Exedra.
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Aqueduct (bridge)
Bridges for conveying water, called aqueducts or water bridges, are constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines.
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Arabesque
The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements.
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Arts and Crafts movement
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.
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Barry Parker
Barry Parker is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s.
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Battlement
A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.
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Bay (architecture)
In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment.
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Bay window
A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
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Bell-cot
A bell-cot, bell-cote or bellcote is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells.
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Belt course
A belt course, also called a string course or sill course, is a continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall.
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Buttress
A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.
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Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.
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Canopy (building)
A canopy is an overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter from weather conditions such as sun, hail, snow and rain.
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Cant (architecture)
Cant or canted in architecture is an angled (oblique) line or surface particularly which cuts off a corner.
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Capital (architecture)
In architecture the capital (from the Latin caput, or "head") or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).
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Casement window
A casement is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.
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Celtic cross
The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland and Britain in the Early Middle Ages.
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Chamfer
A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.
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Chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.
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Cheshire
Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.
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Church of St Martin, Marple
The Church of St Martin is a 19th-century church in Marple, Greater Manchester, England.
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Clerestory
In architecture, a clerestory (lit. clear storey, also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level.
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Conservatory (greenhouse)
A conservatory is a building or room having glass or tarpaulin roofing and walls used as a greenhouse or a sunroom.
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Coping (architecture)
Coping (from cope, Latin capa) consists of the capping or covering of a wall.
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Corbel
In architecture a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket.
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Cornice
A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall.
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Corrugated galvanised iron
Corrugated galvanised iron or steel (colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America) and occasionally abbreviated CGI) is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised mild steel, cold-rolled to produce a linear corrugated pattern in them.
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Cross of Sacrifice
The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission).
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Cruck
A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which supports the roof of a building, used particularly in England.
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Culvert
A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.
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Dentil
A dentil (from Lat. dens, a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.
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Disley
Disley is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England,Disley Parish Council; The Parish of Disley (Official Guide).
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Dormer
A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.
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Dovecote
A dovecote or dovecot (Scots: doocot) is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves.
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Eaves
The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building.
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Edmund Sedding
Edmund Sedding (20 June 1836 – 1868) was an English architect and musician.
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English country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.
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Entasis
In architecture, entasis is the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes.
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Fanlight
A fanlight is a window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.
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Finial
A finial or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.
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Forge
A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.
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Four-centred arch
A four-centred arch, also known as a depressed arch or Tudor arch, is a low, wide type of arch with a pointed apex.
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Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.
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Gargoyle
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
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Gnomon
A gnomon (from Greek γνώμων, gnōmōn, literally: "one that knows or examines") is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,782,100.
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Gritstone
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.
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Hall Green Branch
The Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England.
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Henry Wilson (architect)
Henry Wilson (12 March 1864 – 7 March 1934) was a British architect, jeweller and designer.
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High Lane
High Lane is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Hip roof
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak).
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History of Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.
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Hood mould
In architecture, a hood mould, label mould (from Latin labia, lip), drip mould or dripstone, is an external moulded projection from a wall over an opening to throw off rainwater.
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Hopton Wood stone
Hopton Wood stone (sometimes Hopton-Wood stone or Hoptonwood stone) is a type of limestone quarried west of Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England.
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Impost (architecture)
In architecture, an impost or impost block is a projecting block resting on top of a column or embedded in a wall, serving as the base for the springer or lowest voussoir of an arch.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Infill
Infill is the urban planning term for the rededication of land in an urban environment, usually open-space, to new construction.
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Interlace (art)
In the visual arts, interlace is a decorative element found in medieval art.
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Ionic order
The Ionic order forms one of the three classical orders of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian.
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J. D. Sedding
John Dando Sedding (13 April 1838 – 7 April 1891) was an English church architect, working on new buildings and repair work, with an interest in a "crafted Gothic" style.
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Jamb
A jamb (from French jambe, "leg"), in architecture, is the side-post or lining of a doorway or other aperture.
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Jettying
Jettying (jetty, jutty, getee (obsolete) from Old French getee, jette) is a building technique used in medieval timber-frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below.
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Jib (crane)
A jib or jib arm is the horizontal or near-horizontal beam used in many types of crane to support the load clear of the main support.
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Keystone (architecture)
A keystone (also known as capstone) is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry arch, or the generally round one at the apex of a vault.
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Lancet window
A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a pointed arch at its top.
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Lime kiln
A lime kiln is a kiln used for the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called quicklime (calcium oxide).
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Lintel
A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports.
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List of A6 roads
This is a list of roads designated A6.
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
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Lunette
In architecture, a lunette (French lunette, "little moon") is a half-moon shaped space, either filled with recessed masonry or void.
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Lychgate
A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, lyke-gate or as two separate words lych gate, (from Old English lic, corpse) is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard.
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Macclesfield Canal
The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847.
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Manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.
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Marple Aqueduct
Marple Aqueduct at Marple, Greater Manchester, in north-west England was built to carry the lower level of the Peak Forest Canal across a length of the River Mersey that was renamed the River Goyt in 1896.
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Marple Bridge
Marple Bridge is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Goyt, which runs through the centre of the village, close to Marple.
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Marple, Greater Manchester
Marple is a small town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Mellor Hall
Mellor Hall is a country hall in Mellor, Greater Manchester, England, north of The Devonshire Arms off Longhurst Lane.
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Mellor, Greater Manchester
Mellor is a village in Greater Manchester, England, between Marple Bridge and New Mills and near the county boundary with Derbyshire.
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Metropolitan Borough of Stockport
The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England.
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Modillion
A modillion is an ornate bracket, a corbel, underneath a cornice and supporting it, more elaborate than dentils (literally translated as small teeth).
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Molding (decorative)
Moulding (also spelled molding in the United States though usually not within the industry), also known as coving (United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration.
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Monolithic architecture
Monolithic architecture covers buildings carved, cast or excavated from a single piece of material, in historic forms rock.
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Mullion
A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window, door, or screen, or is used decoratively.
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National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is Historic England's official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields, World Heritage Sites and other heritage assets considered worthy of preservation.
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Nave
The nave is the central aisle of a basilica church, or the main body of a church (whether aisled or not) between its rear wall and the far end of its intersection with the transept at the chancel.
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Norman architecture
The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Obelisk
An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
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Old Manor Farm, Marple
Old Manor Farm is a 15th-century hall in Marple, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Parapet
A parapet is a barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure.
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Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England.
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Pedestal
A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo, "foot of a stall") or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase.
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Pediment
A pediment is an architectural element found particularly in classical, neoclassical and baroque architecture, and its derivatives, consisting of a gable, usually of a triangular shape, placed above the horizontal structure of the entablature, typically supported by columns.
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Pier (architecture)
A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.
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Pilaster
The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.
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Pinnacle
A pinnacle is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations.
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Portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
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Primitive Methodist Church
The Primitive Methodist Church is a body of Holiness Christians within the Methodist tradition, which began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
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Quoin
Quoins are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall.
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Regency architecture
Regency architecture refers to classical buildings built in Britain during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
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River Etherow
The River Etherow is a river in northern England, and a tributary of the River Goyt.
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River Goyt
The River Goyt is a river in North West England.
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Roman numerals
The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.
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Rose window
A rose window or Catherine window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery.
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Roughcast
Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel, and often pebbles or shells.
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Roving bridge
A roving bridge, changeline bridge or turnover bridge is a bridge over a canal constructed to allow a horse towing a boat to cross the canal when the towpath changes sides.
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Rustication (architecture)
Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below. In classical architecture rustication is a range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sash window
A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes", that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes (or "lights") by glazing bars, also known as muntins in the US (moulded strips of wood).
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Skew arch
A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle.
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Skull and crossbones (symbol)
A skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two long bones crossed together under or behind the skull.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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Spandrel
A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.
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Starling (structure)
In architecture, a starling (or sterling) or, more commonly, cutwater is a defensive bulwark, usually built with pilings or bricks, surrounding the supports (or piers) of a bridge or similar construction.
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Steeple
A steeple, in architecture, is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components.
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Stockport
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey.
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Stocks
Stocks are restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.
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Strines
Strines is a village in Greater Manchester, in the valley of the River Goyt midway between Marple and New Mills and about six miles southeast of Stockport.
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Stucco
Stucco or render is a material made of aggregates, a binder and water.
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Sundial
A sundial is a device that tells the time of day when there is sunlight by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.
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Timber framing
Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.
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Tin tabernacle
A tin tabernacle is a type of prefabricated ecclesiastical building made from corrugated galvanised iron.
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Toll house
A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road or canal.
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Transom (architectural)
In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it.
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Tree of life (biblical)
The tree of life (עֵץ הַחַיִּים, Standard) is a term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.
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Undercroft
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times.
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Veranda
A veranda or verandah (from Bengali baranda) is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch.
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Vestry
A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England and Wales, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry".
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Voussoir
A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, which is used in building an arch or vault.
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Wattle and daub
Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
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Weather vane
A weather vane, wind vane, or weathercock is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind.
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Weir
A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the horizontal width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.
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Whaley Bridge
Whaley Bridge is a small town and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, on the River Goyt southeast of Manchester, north of Buxton, east of Macclesfield and west of Sheffield.
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Wrought iron
puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Marple,_Greater_Manchester
