leadwork

This is all kept together with "braids" or narrow bridges between design elements, much like the leadwork in stained glass windows.

[the art of lace making] brugge and surrounds 2009

This is all kept together with "braids" or narrow bridges between design elements, much like the leadwork in stained glass windows.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

New leadwork and slates are being fixed over the south-west range after extensive roof repairs, and a series of late 17th-century windows are being restored, with new window sills.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

New leadwork and slates are being fixed over the south-west range after extensive roof repairs, and a series of late 17th-century windows are being restored, with new window sills.

Torre Abbey refurbishment 2007

On the east side of the middle buttress is an old rain-water head of (eighteenth-century?) leadwork.

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette

Again he swung up his chair and dashed it at the window, and yet again, until no window remained, but a great, gaping opening with a fringe of ragged glass and twisted leadwork.

Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The windows were glazed in lattice panes of leadwork, hung in casements.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

He walked restlessly about the untenanted rooms, stopping strange noises in windows and doors by jamming splinters of wood into the casements and crevices, and pressing together the leadwork of the quarries where it had become loosened from the glass.

The Return of the Native 1878

She requested Oak to get the churchwardens to turn the leadwork at the mouth of the gurgoyle that hung gaping down upon them, that by this means the stream might be directed sideways, and a repetition of the accident prevented.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874