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- TALLAGE
:
- tax levied on boroughs and on the tenants living on royal estates.
- TENANT-in-CHIEF
:
- lord or institution (the Church being most common) holding land directly from the
king. All Earls are Tenants-in-Chief.
- TENON
:
- the projection left at the end of a piece of timber to be inserted into the socket
or mortise made to receIve it.
- TENTH
:
- ecclesiastical or royal percentage tax on produce, profits or property.
- TESTER
:
- canopy for altar or pulpit.
- TEUTONIC
KNIGHTS
:
- German fighting order with main bases in Prussia, Hungary and Germany. Recruits almost
exclusively from German-speaking peoples of Europe.
- THANE
:
- originally meaning a Military Companion to the King. It has come to mean a land holding
administrative office.
- THIRD PENNY
:
- the local earls one third share of fines in shire or hundred courts, often allocated
afterwards to a particular manor or church as income.
- TIE-BEAM
:
- the main beam laid across the space between the walls forming the base for the principal
rafters and their support.
- TIERCERON
RIB
:
- that which springs from a common source to the ridge arriving at different points
but not crossing the centre.
- TITHE
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- one tenth of a persons income given to support the church.
- TONSURE
:
- the rite of shaving the crown of the head of the person joining a monastic order or
the secular clergy. It symbolizes admission to the clerical state.
- TOURNEY
:
- mock combat for knights.
- "TOWN AIR IS FREE AIR"
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- words used in many town charters to proclaim freedom for any serf who lives there
for a year and a day with out being claimed by his lord.
- TRACERY
:
- intersecting decoration of a window.
- TRANSEPT
:
- the north and south extending limbs of a cruciform church.
- TRANSITIONAL
:
- 'Transitional Norman' - the transition from Norman to Gothic.
- TRANSLATE
:
- to transfer bishops from one see to another.
- TRANSOM
:
- the horizontal cross-bar to the mullions of a window or the tracery of a screen.
- TRANSSUBSTANTIATION
:
- to Roman Catholics, one of the central mysteries of the faith, in which the substance
of bread and wine were mystically converted into the body and blood of Christ.
- TRANSVERSE
ARCH
:
- an arch crossing a vault and dividing it into bays.
- TREASURER
:
- the chief financial officer of the realm, and senior officer of the "Exchequer".
- TREBUCHET
:
- stone throwing engine worked by counterweight.
- TREFOIL
:
- three-leafed decoration in tracery.
- TRIFORIUM (BLIND STOREY)
:
- arcaded storey above the arches and below the clerestory in a major church, often
containing a gallery.
- TRUSS
:
- framed support of timber usually to uphold the roof.
- TUNNEL VAULT
:
- springs from opposite walls and presents a concave surface throughout its length.
- TURRET
:
- small tower rising above and resting on one of the main towers, usually used as a
look out point.
- TWENTIETH
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- another type of tax.
- TYMPANUM
:
- space between the lintel arch in a Saxon or Norman doorway, often containing elaborate
carving.
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