How To Use Pointed arch In A Sentence
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They appreciated the soaring towers, pointed arches, the polychromy of brick and stone decoration and the carvings of birds and beasts.
Gothic Renaissance in London
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The house that he occupied, of Venetian design, and four stories in height, bore many architectural marks of distinction, such as the floriated window, the door with the semipointed arch, and medallions of colored marble set in the walls.
The Financier
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It was the earliest important building in which the pointed arch (croisée d'ogive) was used in the chapels of the deambulatory, thus inaugurating this wonderful invention of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The broad pointed arch doorway survives, as does the upper part of the window lighting the great hall and a smaller window lighting the buttery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses.
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The interior is divided into nave and aisles by Corinthian columns with high dosserets that rise to pointed arches.
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The broad pointed arch doorway survives, as does the upper part of the window lighting the great hall and a smaller window lighting the buttery.
Times, Sunday Times
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One enters the court of arms through a door with a pointed arch defended by a machicolated gallery above.
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The entrance door and flanking windows are emphatically Gothic with pointed arches, the doorway framed in granite and the windows with granite sills and lintels.
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It is built on an immense esplanade, which is mounted by three flights of stairs, each in the form of the three sides of a pyramid, and each leading to an immense pointed arch, the entrances to the buildings.
Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
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The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
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The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
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The dome, the round minaret, the pointed arch, and the colossal portal-arch, are universal, as in Persia, and enamelled tiles are also used, but chiefly for interior decoration.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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The hexagonal belfry contains six louvers with pointed arches and is crowned by an octagonal lantern and a copper dome.
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Dr Rowan Williams, our recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, does not enjoy the unqualified support of the media - partly because it's quite difficult to make out what he is saying half the time.
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Studio Twist has been appointed architect and interior designer forand - alteration of the Crown Spa Resort Hainan!
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A pointed archway at a bus-stop told mountain climbers that they were less than an hour away from the hills.
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Both of these stem from the original adoption of the pointed arch.
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Norman influence is evident in the blind pointed arches supported by dosserets and slim columns and the horizontal and arched mouldings, which are reminiscent of buildings in Palermo erected during the monarchy.
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Two spacious aisles run up each side of the nave, separated by clustered columns supporting pointed arches, the front row being surmounted by a narrow mullioned triforium and a lofty clerestory, both lighted by beautifully-painted glass windows.
The South of France—East Half
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It was a really wonderful assemblage of pointed arches, lace-work, branchery, and gigantic flowers.
Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English
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In 1069 the Pope had rejected as a simonist the subdeacon Godfrey, whom Henry had appointed Archbishop of Milan -- Henry failing to acquiesce, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Between are pointed arches, and immediately above, the triforium, having over each arch a treble window resting on four fascicled and three impost colonnettes.
The South of France—East Half
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The broad pointed arch doorway survives, as does the upper part of the window lighting the great hall and a smaller window lighting the buttery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The simple nave arcade is of moulded brick in wide pointed arches.
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Both of these stem from the original adoption of the pointed arch.
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A billycock is a beautiful object (it may be eagerly urged), but it is not in the same style of architecture as Ely Cathedral; it is a dome, a small rococo dome in the Renaissance manner, and does not go with the pointed arches that assault heaven like spears.
Alarms and Discursions
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The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses.
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The wall of the esplanade was a continued series of pointed arches, with a handsome frieze above it.
Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
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The hexagonal belfry contains six louvers with pointed arches and is crowned by an octagonal lantern and a copper dome.
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The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault, a clerestory but no triforium.
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The entrance door and flanking windows are emphatically Gothic with pointed arches, the doorway framed in granite and the windows with granite sills and lintels.
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Their growth is interesting: first the plain ones of very early days, then panels appeared, then the pointed arch with its architectural effect, then the low-pointed arch of Tudor and early Jacobian times, and the geometrical ornament.
Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
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When he was appointed Archbishop of York, Hope was offered, in the way of bishops, a stretch Rover but turned it down.
