The arches are cusped like the windows, but are stilted and segmental.
Above the gallery is a large rose-window in which twelve spokes radiate from a cusped circle in the middle to the circumference, where the lights so formed are further enriched by cusped semicircles.
Above is a good wheel window, with a cusped circle in the centre, surrounded by eight radiating two-arched lights separated by eight radiating columns.
Though not so high, the canopy over the Virgin is far more intricate as it forms a great curve made up of seven little cusped arches with innumerable pinnacles and spires.
In the wall there opens a large pointed and cusped arch, within which at the top there hangs a small tent which, passing through a ring, turns into a great stone curtain upheld by hairy wild men.
It is of three lights, with flowing tracery at the head, and with small cusped and crocketed arches thrown across each light at varying levels.
In the centre a doubly cusped circle is surrounded by twelve radiating openings, whose trefoiled heads abut against twelve other broad trefoils, which are rather curiously run into the mouldings of the containing circle.
The octagon above has buttresses with ordinary pinnacles at each corner, a parapet like that below, and flying buttresses, all pierced, cusped and crocketed like those at the west front.
I know hardly any detail of Italian brickwork which is so refined and good as that in the arches and some cusped circles between them in this quadrangle.
The upper part of these, including the cusped heads to the openings, is of white marble, whilst the shafts are alternately of the same material and of serpentine.
The windows are of one light, and have ogee-cusped heads.
The gables are built with circular bricks, and there is a cusped circular window in each gable.
The aisle roofs are modern, but the nave still retains its old roof, a fine example of a cusped ceiling, boarded and panelled in small square panels.
Anastasia at Verona are constructed in this way, showing on the outside elaborately cusped and pierced plates of stone, against which on the inside the glazing is fixed, surrounded only with a plain circle of stone.
The roof of the nave is a painted timber roof, boarded in a series of cusped lines on the under side of the constructional framework, so as to hide it.
The second stage is more important, and hascusped ogee window-heads and balconies.
Its boldly moulded four-centred arch is surmounted by a second of the same contour, but richly cusped and trefoiled.
Over the doorways, beneath cusped Gothic arches, are also the arms of Cavendish, with crescent for difference.
The recessed portion rises to twice or three times the height of the door, and its pointed or cusped head is always filled by a rich stalactite vault.
Multifoil cusped arch, invented by the Moors at Cordova in the 10th century.
Sir John Cheney, 1509, in Salisbury Cathedral, where the cusped reinforcements are noteworthy (Fig.
On the north wall is a third, and in the south wall a piscina with two-cusped arch and projecting basin.
The cusped arch, too, was it actually not intended to imitate vegetation?
He says that it is merely the special application to the arch of the great ornamental system of foliation, which, "whether simple as in the cusped arch, or complicated as in tracery, arose out of the love of leafage.
If the lower fork has died off, for want of light, we obtain something like the simply cusped arch.
I agree that thecusped arch is not meant to imitate a leaf.
The outer walls of the side aisles are formed by a blind arcade of five arches, surmounted by a projecting balcony or corridor and a clerestory subdivided by its tracery into four arches and three cusped circles.
The clerestory rises above, divided by marvelously slender shafts into six compartments and three cuspedcircles in the apex of the arch.
Their double arches are subdivided by small Byzantine columns; these again are framed within larger cusped and differently broken horseshoe curves.
In the outer wall of the intermediate aisle is a triforium, formed by an arcade of cusped arches, and above this, quite close to the point of the vault, a rose window in each bay.
Boraston church has been much restored, but retains several early-cusped windows, and an old roof whose rafters are carried half-way down the southward wall.
Farther east upon the same wall rises the pretty sedilia, surmounted by the double cusped arch seen on the right in the adjoining view.
The knight's head is crowned by a peaked hauberk, and the soldierly face, with its long, flowing moustache, looks out from a richly cusped and crocketed canopy.
This graceful structure dates from the early part of the fourteenth century, and its cusped and richly moulded arches are charming examples of Decorated work.
The ajimez windows, the cusped arches, and the decorations of this doorway are fine examples of Almohade art.
There is certainly an air of the grotesque in the combination of Mudejar windows, cusped arches, columns, and azulejos, and Renaissance and Gothic features.
The existing building is probably in no part earlier than the twelfth century; it consists of a small modern nave, a sanctuary of two bays with round transverse arches, and cusped Moresque arches in the side walls.
The light is admitted by large cusped circles high up in the side walls, and by good ajimez windows of three lights at the dais end.
A chapel on the north side of the nave, dedicated to Santiago, has a richly cusped arch opening from it to the aisle, and its vault springs from large corbels, carved with figures of the four evangelists, rudely but richly sculptured.
The intermediate aisle has in its outer wall a triforium, formed by an arcade of cusped arches; and above this, quite close to the point of the vault, a rose window in each bay.
The cuspedarch of the lower of these stages is certainly very pretty, but the common form of trefoiled Moorish arch enclosed within it seems to me to be the most frightful of all possible forms.
The thin spandrels of the vaulting in the apse of the choir are pierced with cusped circles, a device occasionally seen in French churches.
The detail of the clerestory windows is very good; they are of two lights, with a cusped circle above, and a well-moulded enclosing arch.
These carry trefoiled or many-cusped arches, the spandrels of which are sculptured; and above this is a sort of shrine with a sloping stone scalloped all over on either side, and a steep diapered roof rising out of the centre.
The western bay is occupied by a late fifteenth-century groined gallery carried on an elliptic arch, with a parapet pierced with richly-cusped circles.
Above the arches which open into the side chapels is a row of small cusped openings, corresponding with those which form the triforium of the choir; and above these are lofty traceried clerestory windows.
It has an outer ring of twelve cusped circles, six within these, and one in the centre.
The rich mouldings of the triforium arch are recessed to the same depth as the pointed arches below, and are again subdivided by a slender clustered column into two pointed and cusped cinquefoil arches, with a quaterfoil in the space between.
Here, however, these are Gothic, with trefoil cusped arches, developing in the topmost to cinquefoil, and giving an air of elegance to the whole that is lacking in the Cathedral.
A fine loggia, with cusped arches and quatrefoils above, runs round both the exposed sides of the Palace.
It is formed of double divisions of three pointed and cusped arches, which on the west wall are increased to groups of four each.
Pietro in Cattedra, with a statue of St Peter over the doorway, and some graceful windows of the cusped arched order belonging to the fourteenth century.
His monument stands over the entrance to the church, and is surmounted by a gracefully cusped canopy, on the top of which is placed an equestrian statue of the greatest of the Della Scala family.
At the golden cusped archway beyond, all had to remove their shoes as though entering a mosque.
The lofty entrance tower recalls that at Oxburgh; its general appearance, its pointed doorway and windows with their mouldings, and also the cusped panels of its string-courses are all distinctly Gothic (Fig.
There are niches, canopies, fan-vaulting, and cuspedtracery (Fig.
Piazzetta dei Leoni, with its two double cusped inner arches, is an early relief of the Nativity, a work of great beauty, framed by the vine decoration so beloved of the early sculptors.
The present Gothic building, however, with its cusped arches is obviously two centuries later in style, though the Byzantine medallions incorporated in the facade may have belonged to the original structure.
The molars have three-cusped crowns, but these cusps are very sharp, and are weaker than those in Galago; the intermediate cusp between the two main cusps to the front is wanting.
Lower incisors not visible beyond the lip, cingulate; posterior molar five-cusped and relatively larger than in the next species (P.
The crowns of the molar teeth are long from before backwards, and their fore and hind cusps are united by transverse ridges, a third being present in the same genera, on the posterior lower five-cusped molar.
The anterior and median are canine-like and procumbent, with a cusped heel behind; the posterior is distinguished from a molar only by the lesser size of its fore-part.
It is enclosed in a cusped aureola formed of several coloured bands of green, violet, and rose.
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