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Encyclopedia Britannica



COPING (from " cope," Lat. capa)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 101 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
COPING (from " cope," Lat. capa) , in architecture, the capping or covering of a
wall
 . This may be made of stone, brick, tile, slate, metal,
wood
  or thatch. In all cases it should be weathered to throw off the wet. In Romanesque
work
  it was plain and flat, and projected over the
wall
  with a throating to form a drip. In later
work
  a steep slope was given to the weathering (mainly on the outer side), and began at the top with an
astragal
 ; in the Decorated style there were two or three sets off; and in the later Perpendicular period these assumed a wavy section, and the coping mouldings were continued round the sides, as well as at top and bottom, mitreing at the angles, as in many of the colleges at Oxford. The cheapest type of coping is that which caps the
ordinary
  9 in. brick wall, and consists of brick on edge above a
double
  tile creasing, all in cement; the creasing consisting of one or two rows of tiles laid horizontally on the wall and projecting on each side about 2 in. to throw off the water (see also MASONRY).


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