INTERLACED ARCHES

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INTERLACED ARCHES , the

term

TERM

for a

scheme

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

of decoration employed in Romanesque and

Gothic

GOTHIC

architecture, where

arches

COURT
_OF.html">ARCHES,
COURT
- COURT
- COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
  influence
  - INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
  of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
- COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)
OF

are thrown from alternate piers, interlacing or intersecting one another. In the former case, the first

arch

ARCH
ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

mould is carried alternately over and under the second, in the latter the mouldings actually intersect and stop one another. An example of the former exists in St Peter's in the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Oxford

, and of the latter in St Joseph's chapel, Glastonbury, and in the

cathedral

CATHEDRAL

of Bristol.

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