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Jamb: Upright side of a door frame or window

Jambarts: Armour for the lower leg. See Greaves

Joggled: Construction held together using overlapping joints

Joinery: The smaller items of woodwork. Door, windows etc

Joist: A beam that supports a floor

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Keep: Donjon; The defendable central part of a Norman castle. Either a Hall-keep with living quaters or a Shell-keep with open centre and walls with a sentry-walk

Keystone: The voussoir at the top of the arch or vault

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Lady Chapel: Chapel dedicated to the Virgin at the East end of the church

Lancet window: Slender pointed window usually found in groups

Laver: The place where monks could wash within the cloister

lierne: Small ornamental sections of vaulting rib joining the main ribs

Lintel: Flat beam above a window or door

Loops: Small openings in a wall through which defenders can shoot arrows or other projectiles

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