mantel

An ornamental facing around a fireplace.

The protruding shelf over a fireplace.

In geometry, lateral surface: as, the mantel of a frustum.

1. A cloak. See mantle (the present spelling in this sense).

In architecture, all the work or facing around a fireplace, resting against the chimney, and usually projecting and more or less ornamental.

In a restricted sense, a mantel-shelf.

The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. The shelf is called also a mantelpiece or mantlepiece.

the shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney

shelf that projects from wall above fireplace