Blind arch
An arch attached to wall or other surface, for decoration
Commonly found in Romanesque Revival architecture ...
Blind Arch
A purely decorative arch within a wall or other flat surface without an actual opening.
Board-and-Batten ...
Blind Arch - An arch that has been filled in by brick or stone. This could be original decoration or part of a renovation ...
BLIND ARCH An arch applied to a wall for decorative purposes, without openings between the arches.
BLIND ARCADE A row of decorative arches that is attached to a wall surface and has no real openings.
blind arch
An arch applied to a wall. Compare with blind arcade, relieving arch
blind stop ...
blind arch: An arch which encloses an opening in a wall which may appear to be a window but which is actually only a shallow indentation in the wall.
Compare with blind arcade, relieving arch.
Blind arch: An arch applied to a wall; A 'dummy' arch. Block capital: A simple cube-like capital with bottom corners tapered. The block capital is particularly characteristic of Ottonian and Romanesque architecture in Germany and England.
blind arch An arch without windows. Especially seen in Romanesque churches. buttress A mass of masonry or brickwork projecting from or built against a wall to give additional strength. See also flying buttress.
The sanctuary facade consists of an arcade of four centrepoint arches resting on thick piers; the heaviness of the facade is relieved by rosettes in the spandrels of the arches, two-tier blind arches on the piers and a row of smaller blind arches ...
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a set of blind arches attached to the wall of a building as decoration ...
A blind triforium does not contain a passageway and blind arches are placed in front of the wall such as at Amiens. A false triforium has arcades which open to the roof. A pierced triforium contains windows in the outer walls of the passageway.
Arcading A row of blind arches in a wall, such that the arches are filled in and lead nowhere
Arch A pointed or curved construction of wedge shaped stones. See Voussoir ...
 See also: Arches, Architecture, Arcade, Decorated, Frame
  
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