refectory - tables
Refectory table. A long, substantial, solid-topped table, without leaves or extensions, used essentially as a dining table. Originally used in the refectories, or dining halls of monasteries, they are found in such places as boarding schools and university halls of residence. The tables usually have heavy turned legs, sometimes connected by stretchers, often with supporting legs halfway along the railed frame. Refectory tables of the type used in communal dining halls are far too big for most modern houses, so many are cut down to make two tables. The term is sometimes applied to a much shorter solid-topped table with a somewhat Jacobean flavour.
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A ten seat cedar and Jarrah refectory style dining table's, the top of cedar and the turned legs being in jarrah