Chancel, south elevation #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

From top; four bay blind arcade on piers with bases and capitals, string course, pilaster strip. circular headed single light with deep splay east of pilaster strip #PilasterStrip #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

The vertical, very slight projection from this wall's surface is a pilaster strip or lesene (different from a pilaster which has a base and capital) #PilasterStrip. It is a feature of both Saxon and Norman architecture #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire

Time for a #NerdyMouseAlert. Look away now if you don't like minute technical detail. A pilaster strip sits in a channel in the wall. It may be laid with each stone course or cut in later #PilasterStrip #StLaurenceDecoration #WallsOnWednesday #StLaurenceBradfordOnAvon #Wiltshire