page_title: Coping (architecture)
hierarchical_section_title: Coping (architecture)
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridge 98, Lancaster Canal. Basin Bridge, originally linked the canal depot with Aldcliffe Road and carried the tow-path across the canal, presumably to keep it clear of the wharves on the north side of the basin. The roving bridge design allowed the horses to cross over without untying the tow-rope. Presumably, the metal "staples" linking the coping stones prevented the tow-rope catching in the mortar between the stones. The bridge now forms part of the Lancaster cycle network. (See 1614603 for a more conventional view.)
context_page_description: Coping consists of the capping or covering of a wall.
  A splayed or wedge coping slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point.
  A coping may consist of stone, brick, clay or terracotta, concrete or cast stone, tile, slate, wood, thatch, or various metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, steel, and zinc. In all cases it should be weathered to throw off the water.
  Various types of copings exist. A diagrammatic explanation of copper copings is available.
  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, 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 Oxford.
context_section_description: Coping (from cope, Latin capa) consists of the capping or covering of a wall.
  A splayed or wedge coping slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point.
  A coping may consist of stone (capstone), brick, clay or terracotta, concrete or cast stone, tile, slate, wood, thatch, or various metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, steel, and zinc. In all cases it should be weathered (have a slanted or curved top surface) to throw off the water.
  Various types of copings exist. A diagrammatic explanation of copper copings is available.
  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 Oxford.
caption: A bridge on the Lancaster Canal, featuring coping stones linked by large metal "staples".
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