tumbling-in
Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments
Courses of brickwork laid at ninety degrees to the slope of a buttress, chimney, or other feature, and tapering into the horizontal courses. It was often employed by 19th c. architects during the Muscular phase of the Gothic Revival, using dense bricks of an engineering type, instead of a cope. See gable. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)