For the method of joining wood and moldings at right angles, see Coping (joinery).
Coping (from cope, Latin capa) is the capping or covering of a wall.[1] A splayed or wedge coping is one that slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point.[2]
A bridge on the Lancaster Canal, featuring coping stones linked by large metal "staples".
In Romanesque work, copings appeared 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 Gothic style there were two or three sets off; and in the later Perpendicular Gothic these assumed a wavy section, and the coping mouldings continued round the sides, as well as at top and bottom, mitring at the angles, as in many of the colleges at the University of Oxford.[1]
^ abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coping". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 101.
^Ching, Francis D. K. (1995), A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, p. 266, ISBN0-442-02462-2
^"Types of Wall Coping". Roof Online. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
December 11, 2023
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