Details and Styles
WOODCARVING - Bargeboards
Here are some of the decorative carved bargeboards
on Canterbury buildings. Bargeboards were designed to protect the eaves
of the rooves from the weather, so that the rain did not get under the
tiles. But they were also often decorated.
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| Barge board at 13 Saint Peter's Street |
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23/23a Palace
Street - top. See also the wonderful faces
on this building
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| Detail of bargeboards, probably modern replacements?. On 12 Palace Street. |
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