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Flanking tower
tower enabling defenders to fire along the length of the wall to be defended.
Flying buttress
a free-standing buttress attached to the main structure by an arch or a half-arch.
Foliage
decorative features in the shape of leaves.
Foliated scroll
a panel decorated with carved foliage or leaves, found below the upper molding or cornice of a wall, and sometimes spanning the whole interior of the church.
Footstall
moulded part of the base of a column or pillar.
Fresco painting
the art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.
Frieze
a decorated band on an internal wall below a cornice or the middle division of the entablature, usually heavily decorated.
Frieze
decorative strip of sculpture or painting.
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