ARCADE

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ARCADE , in architecture, a range of arches, supported either by columns or piers; isolated in the case of those separating the

nave

NAVE

of a church from the aisles, or forming the front of a covered ambulatory, as in the cloisters in Italy and Sicily, round the Ducal Palace or the Square of St Mark's, Venice, round the courts of the palaces in Italy, or in Paris round the Palais-Royal and the Place des Vosges. The earliest examples known are those of the Tabularium, the theatre of Marcellus, and the Colosseum, in Rome. In the palace of Diocletian at Spalato the principal street had an arcade on either side, the arches of which rested direct on the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

without any intervening
Abbey. Devizes. entablature or impost

block

. The term is also applied to the galleries, employed decoratively, on the facades of the Italian churches, and carried round the apses where they are known as eaves-galleries. Sometimes these arcades project from the

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

sufficiently to allow of a passage behind, and sometimes they are
From Rickman's Styles of Architecture, by permission of Parker & Co.
built into and form part of the

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

; 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. Externally, blind arcades
are more often found in Italy and Sicily, but there are examples in
England at Canterbury, Ely,

Peterborough

PETERBOROUGH

, Norwich, St John's (Chester), Colchester and elsewhere. Internally, the oldest example is that of the`old

refectory

REFECTORY (med. Lat. refectorium, from reficere, to refresh)

in Westminster Abbey (fig. I). Sometimes the design is varied with interlacing arches as in St John's, Devizes (fig. 2), and Beverley Minster (fig. 3). In Sicily and the south of Italy these interlacing arcades are the

special

SPECIAL

characteristic of the Saracenic

work

WORK

there found, and their origin may be found in the interlaced arches of the Mosque of

Cordova

CORDOVA (Span. C6rdoba)
CORDOVA (Span. Cordoba; Lat. Corduba)

in Spain. In the cathedral of Palermo and at Monreale they are carried round the apses at the east end. At Caserta-Vecchia, in South Italy, they decorate the lantern over the crossing, and at Amalfi the turrets on the north-west campanile.
The term is also applied to the covered passages which form thoroughfares from one street to another, as in the Burlington Arcade, London; in Paris such an arcade is usually called passage, and in Italy galleria. (R. P. S.)

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