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Coping (from ''cope'', Latin ''capa''), consists of the capping or covering of a Wall . A coping may consist of stone, brick, Tile , Slate , metal, wood or Thatch . In all cases it should be weathered to throw off the water. 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 style there were two or three sets off; and in the later Perpendicular Period these assumed a wavy section, and the coping Moulding s continued round the sides, as well as at top and bottom, Mitre ing at the angles, as in many of the colleges at Oxford . The cheapest type of coping caps the ordinary 9-inch 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 inches to throw off the water. REFERENCES |
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