corbel table

noun

a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.

Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

A fine and noteworthy feature in this church is the corbel table which runs nearly all round it.

There is also an unbroken corbel table above the windows, of very expressive, life-like heads, no two of which are alike.

Above this is a corbel table of heads and mouldings which interferes with the upper window mouldings.

Simple buttresses separate the bays, and there is a corbel-table under the eaves.

There are two of these windows at the east end, and there is a corbel-table under the eaves.

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