Coping (architecture)
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]
Coping may be made of stone (capstone),
aluminum, copper, stainless steel, steel, and zinc.[3] In all cases it should be weathered (have a slanted or curved top surface) to throw off the water.[1]
In
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]
See also
References
- ^ a b c One 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.
- ISBN 0-442-02462-2
- ^ "Types of Wall Coping". Roof Online. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
