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• Cabin (1 tagged buildings)
  Indigenous hut or recreational structure

• Cable-stayed bridge (4 tagged buildings)
  Type of bridge

• Cabmen's Shelters in London (10 tagged buildings)
  Shelter for cabdrivers that are maintained by the Cabmen's Shelter Fund

• Cafeteria (5 tagged buildings)
  Food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service

• Cairn (10 tagged buildings)
  Man-made pile of stones or burial monument

• Calvary (6 tagged buildings)
  Type of monumental public crucifix

• Camera obscura (1 tagged buildings)
  Optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen

• Campanile (1 tagged buildings)
  Free-standing bell tower next to a church building

• Campus (1 tagged buildings)
  Cluster of buildings and land used by a college

• Canal (6 tagged buildings)
  Man-made channel for water

• Canal basin (9 tagged buildings)
  Expanse of waterway alongside or at the end of a canal

• Canal inclined plane (3 tagged buildings)
  Cable railway for changing boat elevation

• Canal tunnel (13 tagged buildings)
  Tunnel for a canal

• Canal warehouse (7 tagged buildings)
  Commercial building along a canal

• Cannon (5 tagged buildings)
  Class of artillery which fires at a low or flat trajectory

• Canopy (1 tagged buildings)
  Structure providing shade or shelter

• Canteen (3 tagged buildings)
  Restaurant of a school or an institution

• Cantilever bridge (4 tagged buildings)
  Bridge built using cantilevers

• Capital (1 tagged buildings)
  Upper part of a column (architecture)

• Capitol building (1 tagged buildings)
  Building in a capital city used for legislative purposes

• Capstan (5 tagged buildings)
  Rotating machine used to control or apply force to another element

• Car factory (2 tagged buildings)
  Building

• Caretaker's house (39 tagged buildings)
  Residential structure on the grounds of a cemetery, park, estate, school, building complex, &c, used as an employee's dwelling

• Caretaker's house (42 tagged buildings)
  Residential structure on the grounds of a cemetery, park, estate, school, building complex and used as an employee's dwelling

• Carmelite monastery (1 tagged buildings)
  House or foundation of the Carmelite friars

• Carnegie library (69 tagged buildings)
  Libraries built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie: 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929

• Carriage house (1,634 tagged buildings)
  Buildings or outbuildings separate from the living quarters designed or used for the storage of coaches, carriages, other vehicles, and often horses

• Carthusian monastery (3 tagged buildings)
  Monastery of the Order of Saint Bruno

• Carving (8 tagged buildings)
  Act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material

• Carving (8 tagged buildings)
  Act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material

• Carving (8 tagged buildings)
  Work executed by cutting a figure or design out of a solid material such as stone or wood

• Casino (6 tagged buildings)
  Facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities

• Castellated Gothic (2 tagged buildings)
  Architectural style

• Castellum (1 tagged buildings)
  Smaller castrum (military camp)

• Castle (742 tagged buildings)
  Type of fortified structure built in Europe, Asia and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility

• Castle chapel (6 tagged buildings)
  Chapel built within a castle

• Castle of the Welsh princes (9 tagged buildings)
  Castle built by the Welsh princes

• Castle ruin (13 tagged buildings)
  Ruin of a fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility

• Castrum (3 tagged buildings)
  Ancient Roman fortification

• Catacombs (2 tagged buildings)
  Subterranean passageways used as burial place

• Cathedral (34 tagged buildings)
  Christian church, which is seat of a bishop

• Cathedral library (1 tagged buildings)
  Library situated in a cathedral

• Catholic cathedral (19 tagged buildings)
  Church that is the seat of the bishop of a diocese of the Catholic Church

• Catholic church building (143 tagged buildings)
  Church building of the Catholic Church

• Catholic school (11 tagged buildings)
  Parochial educational institution operated by a Catholic organisation

• Catholic seminary (10 tagged buildings)
  Catholic high education institute for the education of the clergy

• Causeway (25 tagged buildings)
  Route raised up on an embankment

• Cave (3 tagged buildings)
  Natural underground space large enough for a human to enter

• Cellar (2 tagged buildings)
  Room, often wholly or mostly below ground level, used for storage of food and often other items

• Celtic cross (29 tagged buildings)
  Form of Christian cross with a ring surrounding the intersection of the vertical and horizontal members

• Cemetery (509 tagged buildings)
  Place of burial

• Cemetery chapel (76 tagged buildings)
  Chapel for funeral services in a cemetery

• Cemetery cross (2 tagged buildings)
  Large cross placed at a cemetery

• Cemetery gate (9 tagged buildings)
  Point of entry to a cemetery

• Cemetery wall (4 tagged buildings)
  Wall around a cemetery

• Cenotaph (57 tagged buildings)
  Empty tomb or monument erected in honor of a person whose remains are lost or interred elsewhere

• Chain tower (1 tagged buildings)
  Structure

• Chalet (1 tagged buildings)
  Type of building or house, native to the Alpine region

• Chalybeate spring (1 tagged buildings)
  Mineral spring with water containing iron

• Chamber tomb (1 tagged buildings)
  Communal burial places, cut into rock or hillslopes or constructed of masonry, whose chamber may or may not have an entry passage, usually covered by a mound

• Chancel arch (1 tagged buildings)
  Arch in a church separating nave from chancel

• Changing room (1 tagged buildings)
  Room where you can change your clothes

• Chantry (3 tagged buildings)
  Endowed chapel where priests can say mass for the dead

• Chantry chapel (3 tagged buildings)
  Building on private land or a dedicated area or altar within a parish church or cathedral, set aside or built especially for the performance of the chantry duties by the priest

• Chapel (3,146 tagged buildings)
  Small place, building or room of Christian fellowship or worship, may be attached or not to a larger institution or part of a building

• Chapel of ease (2 tagged buildings)
  Church building

• Chapelry (26 tagged buildings)
  Small church building that is not a full parish church

• Chapter house (8 tagged buildings)
  Building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which larger meetings are held

• Chapter house (1 tagged buildings)
  Meeting place of a monastic community

• Charitable organisation (58 tagged buildings)
  Non-profit organisation with a charitable purpose

• Château (1 tagged buildings)
  Commune in Saône-et-Loire, France

• Château (11 tagged buildings)
  Type of manor house mostly built by noble families for representative purposes

• Châteauesque (4 tagged buildings)
  Revival architectural style

• Cheese press (2 tagged buildings)
  Device for separating curds from whey in cheesemaking

• Cheesery (1 tagged buildings)
  Establishment in which cheese is produced

• Chest tomb (2,519 tagged buildings)
  Rectangular funerary monument in shape of cist or stone box above a grave

• Chicken coop (7 tagged buildings)
  Place where chickens roost

• Children's home (4 tagged buildings)
  Institution where young people are taken care of

• Children's hospital (3 tagged buildings)
  Hospital which offers its services exclusively to children

• Chimney (406 tagged buildings)
  Structure that provides ventilation for exhausting the hot or toxic flue gases, aerosols and smokes produced by a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace inside a building to the outside atmosphere

• Chinese architecture (1 tagged buildings)
  Style of architecture

• Chinese restaurant (1 tagged buildings)
  Establishment that serves Chinese cuisine

• Chinoiserie (1 tagged buildings)
  European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and East Asian artistic traditions, especially in the decorative arts, garden design, architecture, literature, theatre, and music

• Christian Church (1 tagged buildings)
  Ecclesiological term referring to what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original ecclesiastical institution established by Jesus

• Christian cross (86 tagged buildings)
  Symbol of Christianity

• Church (1 tagged buildings)
  Family name

• Church building (18,626 tagged buildings)
  Building constructed for Christian worship

• Church building incorporated with parish hall (2 tagged buildings)
  Christian buildings where the service premises and parish hall have been incorporated

• Church college (1 tagged buildings)
  Type of college

• Church congregation (1 tagged buildings)
  Religious organisation meeting at a particular location

• Church gate (127 tagged buildings)
  Gate of a church

• Church hall (392 tagged buildings)
  Room or building associated with a church building, general for community and charitable use

• Church of England parish church (25 tagged buildings)
  Church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region

• Church of England school (3 tagged buildings)
  

• Church ruin (84 tagged buildings)
  Ruins of a church

• Church tower (26 tagged buildings)
  Tower of a church building

• Church with cemetery (1 tagged buildings)
  Type of facility

• Churchyard (391 tagged buildings)
  Patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church

• Churchyard cross (561 tagged buildings)
  Large cross in churchyard, usually on the south side, intended to sanctify the churchyard

• Churchyard wall (478 tagged buildings)
  Wall around a cemetery or churchyard

• Cider house (7 tagged buildings)
  Type of drinking establishment

• Cider mill (8 tagged buildings)
  Location and equipment used to crush apples into apple juice for use in making apple cider

• Cinerarium (2 tagged buildings)
  Place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns

• Circus (1 tagged buildings)
  Commonly a travelling company of performers

• Circus building (1 tagged buildings)
  Permanent structure housing a circus, used for circus or theatrical events

• Circus building (1 tagged buildings)
  Venue for circuses

• Cistercian architecture (3 tagged buildings)
  Architectural style

• Cistercian monastery (4 tagged buildings)
  

• Cistercian nunnery (1 tagged buildings)
  

• Cistern (6 tagged buildings)
  Artificial reservoirs for the storage of water, typically water-tight tanks in a high part of a building or underground

• City gate (14 tagged buildings)
  Gate which is, or was, set within a city wall

• City hall (520 tagged buildings)
  Refers to the chief public administration buildings of a city, generally housing the mayor's office and legislative chambers

• City museum (5 tagged buildings)
  A museum that displays local history, art, or other collections

• City walls (102 tagged buildings)
  Defensive wall around a settlement

• Civic building (3 tagged buildings)
  Central landmark building in the geographical or business centre of a town or city

• Civic centre (2 tagged buildings)
  Prominent land area within a community that is constructed to be its focal point or centre

• Civic centre (2 tagged buildings)
  Public building associated with some metropolises

• Clapper bridge (22 tagged buildings)
  Bridge formed by large flat slabs of stone supported on stone piers, or resting on the banks of streams

• Class (1 tagged buildings)
  Collection of items in an ontology sharing common characteristics

• Classical architecture (20 tagged buildings)
  Architectural style, inspired by classical Greco-Roman architectural principles

• Classroom (2 tagged buildings)
  Room inside school building where lessons are given

• Clergy house (3,609 tagged buildings)
  Buildings in connection with a church used for secular activities

• Clinic (9 tagged buildings)
  Health care facility, primarily focused on the care of outpatients

• Clipper (1 tagged buildings)
  Very fast sailing ship of the 19th century

• Clock (4 tagged buildings)
  Instrument that measures the passage of time

• Clock tower (224 tagged buildings)
  Architectural structure

• Cloister (7 tagged buildings)
  Open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries

• Cloth hall (4 tagged buildings)
  Historic building in the marketplace of a European town

• Club (2 tagged buildings)
  Association of people united by a common interest or goal

• Clubhouse (262 tagged buildings)
  Building of a club

• Coaching inn (12 tagged buildings)
  Historical inn serving coach travellers

• Coal drop (1 tagged buildings)
  Coal bunker supplied by dropping coal from railway wagons above

• Coal duty marker (49 tagged buildings)
  Duty zone boundary marker in England

• Coal mine (2 tagged buildings)
  Place for extraction of coal

• Coal staithe (1 tagged buildings)
  Railside structure for storing coal

• Coal-fired power station (3 tagged buildings)
  Facility that converts coal into electricity

• Coal-tax post (124 tagged buildings)
  Boundary markers

• Coast guard station (1 tagged buildings)
  Coast guard facility used for operational activities

• Cockpit (1 tagged buildings)
  Enclosure for cockfights

• Coffeehouse (54 tagged buildings)
  Establishment that serves coffee and tea

• Coffin (3 tagged buildings)
  Container for transport, laying out and the burial of a corpse

• Coffin slab (1 tagged buildings)
  

• Cohousing (1 tagged buildings)
  Intentional community

• Collecting box (2 tagged buildings)
  Way of collecting Donations

• Collection (3 tagged buildings)
  Set of purposefully gathered physical or digital objects with some common characteristics

• College (44 tagged buildings)
  Higher education institution

• College building (6 tagged buildings)
  Building used by a college

• College library (6 tagged buildings)
  General library at an institution of higher education

• College of the University of Cambridge (15 tagged buildings)
  

• College of the University of Oxford (18 tagged buildings)
  Colleges and PPHs which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university

• Collegiate church (3 tagged buildings)
  Church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons

• Colonial Revival architecture (1 tagged buildings)
  American architectural style

• Colonnade (4 tagged buildings)
  Row of columns

• Colony housing (209 tagged buildings)
  Two-story terraced flats with independent front-doors and gardens

• Column (17 tagged buildings)
  Structural element sustaining the weight of a building

• Combat vehicle model (1 tagged buildings)
  Specific vehicle design which includes mounted armament

• Comedy club (1 tagged buildings)
  A venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts

• Comfort station (1 tagged buildings)
  Stand-alone building that has public toilets inside

• Command centre (1 tagged buildings)
  Place used to provide centralized command

• Commandry (2 tagged buildings)
  Smallest division of the European landed estate or manor

• Commemorative plaque (10 tagged buildings)
  Plate or tablet, fixed to a surface or freestanding, commemorating an event, person, place, etc.

• Commercial building (166 tagged buildings)
  Buildings associated with any aspect of the various activities and business relationships of industry and trade

• Commercial property (1 tagged buildings)
  Buildings or land intended to generate a profit, either from capital gain or rental income

• Commissioners' church (2 tagged buildings)
  Type of Anglican church

• Commons category (1 tagged buildings)
  Subclass of Wikimedia category

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained memorial (3 tagged buildings)
  Memorials maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Commune (1 tagged buildings)
  Community of people living together, sharing common interests

• Communication centre (1 tagged buildings)
  

• Community centre (51 tagged buildings)
  Public location where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes

• Community health centre (2 tagged buildings)
  Clinic staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses, providing healthcare services to people in a certain area

• Community school (28 tagged buildings)
  State-funded school in England and Wales under the administration of the local education authority

• Composite ship (1 tagged buildings)
  Marine vessel with a design incorporating both wood and metal for the body

• Compound (1 tagged buildings)
  Cluster of buildings in an enclosure

• Concentric castle (1 tagged buildings)
  Fortification

• Concert hall (47 tagged buildings)
  Building where concerts take place

• Concourse (1 tagged buildings)
  Place where pathways or roads meet

• Concrete arch bridge (5 tagged buildings)
  Arch bridge built from concrete

• Concrete bridge (2 tagged buildings)
  Type of bridge with concrete as the main material used

• Conduit house (7 tagged buildings)
  Building

• Conference hall (4 tagged buildings)
  Room provided for singular events such as business conferences and meetings

• Conference room (2 tagged buildings)
  Internal space used for a group meeting or reception

• Conflagration (1 tagged buildings)
  Large and destructive fire that threatens human life, animal life, health, and/or property

• Conflation (2 tagged buildings)
  Merging of distinct identities or concepts, usually erroneously

• Congregation (1 tagged buildings)
  Group of people regularly attending a particular place of worship

• Conservation area (1 tagged buildings)
  Protected area, usually architectural or urban, in the UK

• Conservatory (3 tagged buildings)
  Educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of music

• Conservatory (4 tagged buildings)
  Greenhouse for the public display of plants

• Constant angle arch dam (1 tagged buildings)
  Type of arch dam

• Constituent college (2 tagged buildings)
  College administered by a collegiate university

• Consumer cooperative (1 tagged buildings)
  Enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically

• Container (1 tagged buildings)
  Any receptacle for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and shipping

• Contour fort (4 tagged buildings)
  Type of hill fort which follows the contours of the land where it is built

• Control tower (15 tagged buildings)
  Air traffic control tower

• Convenience store (1 tagged buildings)
  Small store that stocks a range of everyday items

• Convent (21 tagged buildings)
  Religious community

• Convention centre (18 tagged buildings)
  Building designed to hold a convention

• Converted barn (28 tagged buildings)
  Barn converted in to a house

• Cooling pond (1 tagged buildings)
  Man-made body of water, formed to cool heated water or to supply cooling water

• Cooling tower (2 tagged buildings)
  Device which extracts waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream

• Cooperage (1 tagged buildings)
  Factory in which barrels are constructed

• Cooperative (1 tagged buildings)
  Autonomous association of persons or organisations

• Copper mine (2 tagged buildings)
  Mine which primarily produces copper ore

• Corbel (2 tagged buildings)
  Piece of masonry jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight

• Corn exchange (68 tagged buildings)
  Building where farmers and merchants traded cereal grains

• Corporate museum (1 tagged buildings)
  Type of museum

• Corridor (1 tagged buildings)
  Passage affording access to the rooms in a building

• Cottage (38,440 tagged buildings)
  Typically, a small house

• Cottage orné (39 tagged buildings)
  Rustic style of domestic architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries

• Cottage villa (1 tagged buildings)
  House which combines the characteristics of a cottage and a villa

• Cotton mill (46 tagged buildings)
  Factory housing powered spinning machinery for the production of yarn

• Country house (769 tagged buildings)
  Houses in the country as opposed to an urban area, especially houses that are large, have substantial property, and are used seasonally

• Country house hotel (181 tagged buildings)
  A country house used as a hotel

• Country park (1 tagged buildings)
  Area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment

• County Court (1 tagged buildings)
  

• County hall (24 tagged buildings)
  Building that houses the seat of local government for a county

• County record office (4 tagged buildings)
  Local authority repository

• Courthouse (90 tagged buildings)
  Building which is home to a court

• Courtroom (2 tagged buildings)
  Enclosed space in which a judge regularly holds court

• Courtyard (43 tagged buildings)
  Enclosed area, often by a building, that is open to the sky

• Covered bridge (2 tagged buildings)
  Bridge with roof and sidings

• Covered passageway (2 tagged buildings)
  Part of building

• Coworking space (1 tagged buildings)
  Shared workspace encouraging exchanges and openness

• Cowshed (749 tagged buildings)
  Building where cows are housed

• Crane (19 tagged buildings)
  Type of machine specialised in lifting objects

• Creative residency (1 tagged buildings)
  Cultural venue promoting residency programmes

• Creative work (1 tagged buildings)
  Distinct artistic creation such as artwork, literature, music, and paintings

• Crematorium (17 tagged buildings)
  Building in which cremation takes place

• Crescent (19 tagged buildings)
  Architectural structure; multiple terraced houses arranged in a curve

• Cricket pavilion (3 tagged buildings)
  Building

• Crinkle crankle wall (4 tagged buildings)
  Wavy brick wall

• Croft (2 tagged buildings)
  Fenced or enclosed area of land

• Crofting township (1 tagged buildings)
  Subdivision of land in Scotland

• Cross (9 tagged buildings)
  Geometrical figure

• Cross (18 tagged buildings)
  Visual work in the shape of two intersecting bars, usually an upright one traversed by a horizontal one, especially used as Christian symbol

• Cross (1 tagged buildings)
  Visual work or crafted object in the shape of two intersecting bars, especially those used as Christian symbols

• Cross base (27 tagged buildings)
  

• Cross moline (1 tagged buildings)
  Heraldic cross

• Cross of Sacrifice (22 tagged buildings)
  Design of war memorial by Reginald Blomfield

• Cross shaft (2 tagged buildings)
  Part of a cross (physical object)

• Cross slab (10 tagged buildings)
  Pictish carved stone cross

• Cross-platform interchange (1 tagged buildings)
  Transfer station design

• Cross-wing (1 tagged buildings)
  Addition to a house, at right angles to the original building

• Crown Court (1 tagged buildings)
  Part of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

• Crucifix (4 tagged buildings)
  Cross with an image or artwork of Jesus on it

• Cruck framed barn (8 tagged buildings)
  Barn having a roof supported by a pair of bowed A-frame curved timbers

• Crypt (1 tagged buildings)
  Stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault

• Cultural heritage ensemble (81 tagged buildings)
  Cultural heritage site, consisting of a ensemble of buildings

• Cultural institution (1 tagged buildings)
  Organisation that works for the preservation or promotion of culture

• Cultural property (6 tagged buildings)
  Structures and works designated as representing cultural heritage

• Culvert (11 tagged buildings)
  Structure that allows water to flow under an obstruction

• Cup marked stones (1 tagged buildings)
  

• Cupola (2 tagged buildings)
  Dome-like architectural structure

• Curb (2 tagged buildings)
  Edge where a sidewalk meets a road

• Curfew bell (1 tagged buildings)
  

• Curtain wall (7 tagged buildings)
  Defensive wall between two towers of a castle, fortress or town

• Custom house (27 tagged buildings)
  Government office building for import and export of goods

• Cut (2 tagged buildings)
  Where soil or rock material from a hill or mountain is cut out to make way for a canal, road or railway line

• Cycling tunnel (1 tagged buildings)
  Tunnel used by cyclists