built into and form part of the wall; in the latter case, they are known as blind or wall arcades; and they were constantly employed to decorate the lower part of the walls of the aisles and the choir-aisles in English churches.
Wall arcadeIn medieval churches, a blind arcade forming a dado below windows.Wallhead(Scots): Straight top of a wall. Wallhead chimney: chimney rising from a wallhead. Wallhead gable: gable rising from a wallhead.
Wall arcade or buttress
Development of the vaulting rib and shaft
Cylindrical apse and chapels
Introduction of central and western square, round or polygonal towers.
Ornamentation in the form of stylistically rendered animal and plants forms ...
 See also: Church, Blind arcade, Timber, Vault, Brace
  
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