Mullions meaning
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The general construction of wooden screens is close panelling beneath, on which stands screen-work composed of slender turned balusters or regular wooden mullions, supporting tracery more or less rich with cornices, crestings, &c., and often painted in brilliant colours and gilded.
The back of the obelisk is plain, but the front and sides are subdivided into storeys by a series of bands and plates, each storey having panels sunk into it which seem to represent windows with mullions and transom.
Deeply hollowed jambs are original, but mullions and tracery renewed.
Character features include exposed stone mullions, exposed beams, stripped wooden paneled doors and exposed stone walls.
mullions probably replaced; one gargoyle.