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HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

Cartouche. - An ornate panel, oval, round, or angular, which usually is placed in a pediment.
Cavetto-moulding. - A small concave moulding of one quarter of a circle.
Cellarium. - The western range of a monastic house, containing the store-rooms or cellars.
Cellars. - Used in the mediæval sense of "store-rooms," not necessarily underground. Cf. No. 206.
Chamfer. - The bevel or surface left by cutting away the angle or arris (q.v.). When the surface is below
the edges it is called a sunk chamfer; when the surface is concave, a hollow chamfer.
Channel-joints. - Joints in ashlar wrought as channels or grooves.
Chapter. - The clergy of a cathedral or collegiate church, or the members of a monastic order, acting in
council or as a body.
Charge. - Any figure borne on the field of a coat of arms (Heraldry).
Chasuble. - Ecclesiastical vestment covering back and front, used in the celebration of Mass.
Checked. - Recessed as for a door or shutter.
Checky. - Divided into squares (checkers) of alternate colours (Heraldry).
Chevron. - A charge of pointed gable form (Heraldry).
Chevronel. - A narrower form of chevron (Heraldry).
Chief. - The upper third of a shield (Heraldry).
Choir. - Used structurally for the eastern arm of a transeptal church. Strictly it was the internal structure
in which the service was sung, or the part of the church in which this structure was placed, that
being normally, in later times, the eastern division.
Cinquefoil. - (1) See Foil. (2) A flower of five petals (Heraldry).
Cistvaen. - A "chest"-shaped burial chamber composed of upright slabs.
Clear-storey. - A lighting storey or range of windows in the highest part of the nave, chancel, etc., of a
church.
Close. - A courtyard.
Collar point. - The position corresponding to that at which a collar is fastened in front.
Console. - An ornamented bracket of stone or wood.
Contourny. - Said of an animal with its face turned to sinister (Heraldry).
Conversi. - Generally, the manual labourers in a monastic house, spoken of as "lay brothers." In Cistercian
monasteries , however, they were subject to the Rule, like the monks, and had their "choir" in the
nave of the church (cf. pp. 73, 76).
Corbel, Corbel-course. - A projecting stone, usually moulded, to support a superincumbent weight; a
succession of such forms a corbel-course.
Counterchanged or Countercharged. - Having an interchange of colours (Heraldry).
Counter combatant. - Of two animals in a fighting posture, one on each side of a charge (Heraldry).
Counterflory. - See Tressure.
Couped. - See under Erased.
Credence. - A side table or shelf, often in a niche, for the Eucharistic elements before consecration.
Crenellated. - Battlemented; having a parapet of alternate solids (merlons) and openings (crenelles or
kernels).
Crocketed. - Having ornaments, such as buds or curled leaves, on the sides.
Crockets. - Ornaments carved in imitation of curved and bent conventional foliage, used on the sides of
spires, canopies, hood-moulds, etc.
Crosier or Crozier. - A pastoral staff, i.e. one with a crook (crocia) for head, carried by bishops or abbots.
Cross (in Heraldry) :
(1) Cross crosslet. - Originally a cross with limbs ending as trefoils or treble buds, but later a cross
with limbs ending in squarely-cut plain crosses.
(2) Cross flory. - A cross of which the limbs end in fleur-de-lis, which should spring from a knop or
bud or from the square ends of the limbs. Generally of a cross having such flowered ends.
(3) Cross moline. - A cross in the form of a mill-wheel.
(4) Cross patty (croiz patée, i.e. "pawed," or like a paw). - Strictly, a cross with its arms terminating
directly in a form resembling fleur-de-lis; usually a cross with expanding arms cut square at the
end, which is also described as a cross-formy.
Cross-loop. - An opening with arms like a cross.
Curtain or Curtain-wall. - A high enclosing wall.
Cushion Capital. - A cubical block having the lower corners rounded.
Cushioned frieze. - A frieze curving outwardly.
Cusps, cusping. - The projecting points between the small arcs of "foils" (q.v.) in Gothic tracery, arches,
etc. A surface so treated is said to be cusped or cuspated.

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