Flushwork
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In architecture, flushwork is decorative masonry work which combines on the same flat plane flint and ashlar stone. If the stone projects from a flat flint wall then the term is proudwork, as the stone stands "proud" rather than being "flush" with the wall.
Arms of Sir Guy Ferre (d.1323) in flushwork at Butley Priory, Suffolk
Elaborate 15th-century flint and limestone flushwork at Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford, Suffolk
Unusual fretwork tracery and flushwork, at Holy Trinity Church in Barsham, Suffolk
The Ethelbert Gate at Norwich Cathedral
Butley Priory
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Butley Priory, sometimes called Butley Abbey, was a religious house of Canons regular in Butley, Suffolk, dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary. It was founded in 1171 by Ranulf de Glanville, Chief Justiciar to King Henry II (1180-1189), and was the sister foundation to Ranulf's house of White canons (Premonstratensians) at Leiston Abbey, a few miles to the north, founded c. 1183. Butley Priory was suppressed in 1538.
North front of the 14th-century gatehouse of Butley Priory
The Priory site from the south-east. The Gatehouse is at the north of the precinct: the church and convent buildings stood on the site of the farm
Buck engraving (1738), detail: priory church tower far left
The church ruins among farm buildings.