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INTERLACED ARCHES

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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INTERLACED See also:

ARCHES, COURT OF

ARCHES , the See also:

TERM

term for a See also:

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

scheme of decoration employed in Romanesque and See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, where arches are thrown from alternate piers, interlacing or intersecting one another. In the former See also:

case, the first See also:

arch See also:

MOULD

mould is carried alternately over and under the second, in the latter the See also:

MOULDINGS

mouldings actually intersect and stop one another. An example of the former exists in St See also:

Peter's in the See also:

East, See also:

Oxford, and of the latter in St See also:

Joseph's See also:

CHAPEL

chapel, See also:

GLASTONBURY

Glastonbury, and in the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral of See also:

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