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Mind your language

‘Bolection’ and how the language of architecture was moulded

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

A pleasant menagerie of words grazes in the field of architectural mouldings (the projecting or incised bands that serve useful and aesthetic purposes): gadroon, astragal, larmier and rabbet, but none is chunkier or more mysterious than bolection.

Bolection mouldings cover joints, especially between surfaces of different levels, such as round the panels of a door.

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