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Interlacing Arches

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Interlacing arches
Stilted arch
During these latter periods the porches with their tympanums, archivolts, columns and galleries as well as other parts of the buildings were lavishly decorated with figures ...

 


Exterior: Blind arcades, sometimes with interlacing arches, were the common adornment for walls
Moldings carved with the beakhead, zigzag, or chevron, or alternating lozenge
Exterior: crenelation
Exterior: towers
Exterior: square crossing tower ...

Sometimes the design is varied with interlacing arches as in St John's, Devizes (fig. 2), and Beverley Minster (fig. 3).

See also: Architecture, Arches, Lacing, Minster, Cathedral

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