STILTED

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STILTED , a

term

TERM

in architecture, given to anything raised above its usual level; it is usually applied to the arch, which is said to be stilted when its centre is raised above the

capital

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

or impost. In Byzantine architecture this was frequently done in order to give more importance to the twin

arches

ARCHES,
COURT
OF

of the windows, and less to the

shaft

which divided them. In Romanesque and

Gothic

GOTHIC

work

WORK

the stilted arch was often employed in the semi-circular apses, where in consequence of the closer juxtaposition of the columns round the

apse

APSE
APSE (Gr. alkir, a fastening, especially the
felloe
- FELLOE
of a wheel; Lat. absis)

the

arches

COURT
_OF.html">ARCHES, COURT OF

were much narrower than those of the choir; in order, however, that the

apex

APEX

of all the arches should be of the same height, the

apse

APSE
APSE (Gr. alkir, a fastening, especially the
felloe
- FELLOE
of a wheel; Lat. absis)

arches were stilted.

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