Only two definite architectural details of this great fortress remain as they were in those warlike [Illustration: Chateau de Beauvoir] times, the tower of the chapel and a flank of wall containing a series of ogival windows.
From the small amount of stain used I do not think they are likely to be later than 1330, though the queer little pedestal with its ogival arch does not look a very early feature.
Its façade was nearly five hundred feet long, of most severe and simple lines, and presented a double row of ogival windows, surmounted by niches containing thirty-one finely executed statues of counts and countesses of Flanders.
Both churches are disappointing within, although the former is, no doubt, of great interest to architects as an example of the ogival style, while the latter is Gothic and dates from the fourteenth century.
The vaulted roof is supported by massive round columns and forms a notable example of the ogival style of architecture.
This immense vault is covered with a series of cupolas of a modified form which finally take the feature of the early development of the ogival arch.
So far as the main body of the church is concerned, it was completed by the end of the twelfth century, and only in its interior is shown the development of the early ogival style.
The great distinction of this feature comes from the fact that its Romanesque walls are surmounted by a truly ogival vault.
Only from the thirteenth century onward did they make general use of ogival vaulting, maintaining with great conservatism the basilica plan of Roman tradition.
The north portal is richly sculptured; and the choir, with its fifteenth-century ogival chapels, has been rebuilt from the original work of 1285.
The bays of the nave are divided by round-headed arches, but connected with the opposing bay by the ogival variety.
It is agreed that its chief element of construction was the ogival vaulting which was being widely used by Romanesque builders in the first half of the 12th century; and pointed arches appeared as early.
The next step, the appearance of Gothic itself, may best be held to date from the systematic but not exclusive use of pointed arches in association with ogival vaults about the middle of the 12th century.
It was completed, in a rather plain and heavy ogival style, under the capable direction of the William who came to Canterbury, in response to a call, to rebuild the choir of that English church in 1174.
From the thirteenth to the fifteenth century there grew up here a work embracing the ogival and the flamboyant, neither in an undue proportion, but as well as in any other single structure known.
The choir, as is most usual, is the masterpiece of the collection, the windows, in particular, being of the purest ogival style.
The gable field is broken by a smaller wheel, and in an ogival niche are statues of the Annunciation.
Its entrance, an ogival portal sunk beneath two impressive round turrets, built of different sizes through some vagary, still remains; a most impressive relic, imbedded in more recent walls.
The noble arch of theogival portal is, by a touch of genius, pinched forward at its topmost point, and is there sliced away, so as to make a snub-nosed protuberance that seems to lift up the whole front.
In the first story is cut a small ogival window, under a prettily crocketed head and a flat finial.
Its massive stones are scrupulously shaped and fitted, the grim faces of its quadrangular walls are softened by wide ogival windows, its top is crowned all around by a deep cornice.
On the angle behind is a tourelle supported by corbels, and in the ogival door is a tympanum, in whose carvings we make out a plane and a plumb-line.
The great Clock Tower and its ogivalgate of the thirteenth century is Vire's chief architectural curiosity.
Normandy did not fall under the sway of the ogival or Gothic style, which had established itself in the Ile de France and Picardy, until quite a hundred years after it made its appearance there (1150).
According to Viollet-le-Duc, it is pre-eminently an "ogival church.
Built of massive masonry, each consists of two superposed arches, one above and the other below the point of abutment of the ogivalarches of the great nave.
Undoubtedly it would have spread farther afield had it not been checked--even while Fontevrault was building--by the advent of ogival ribs which initiated a new manner of masonry roofing.
The first Gothic cathedrals of Normandy show purely French influence and only gradually were regional ogival traits developed.
Ogival art such as this has retained all the grand simplicity of Romanesque.
There is little of the ogival style about these narrow loophole windows, these diagonals unbraced by flying buttresses.
The great fortified gateway, which gives access to the old citadel, is a fine ogival work flanked by two massive machicolated towers.
The modern church, after the ogival manner, is far more satisfactory than most modern ecclesiastical monuments.
The interior court takes on quite a different aspect, that of the "architecture civile" of the third ogival period, when Renaissance forms and details had crept in, almost destroying Gothic lines.
The nave shows decided affinity to early Gothic, as shown by the ogival arches and vaulting.
Observe the geometrical designs in the panels of the otherwise ogival and slightly pointed doorway.
The oldest part of the building is consequently the western front, classic in its outline, but showing among its ogival details both the symmetry and triangular pediment of Renaissance art.
The northern front is by far the best of the two, boasting of a rather good relief in the tympanum of the ogival arch; some of the painted windows are also of good workmanship, though the greater part are modern glass, and unluckily unstained.
This frieze is Moorish or Mudejar-Byzantine, and though really it does not belong in an ogival building, it harmonizes strangely with it.
The cloister, in spite of the Arab-looking geometrical tracery of the ogival arches, is both light and elegant.
It is a primitive ogival (Spanish) temple of the thirteenth century, with smatterings of Romanesque-Byzantine.
The arches of the three doors are richly carved with ogival arabesques, and the panels, though more modern, have been wrought by the hand of a master.
One of these drains had an ogival vaulting, the description of which we will borrow from MM.
The pointed vaulting of the southern transept is 12th century, and the ogival groining rests on Norman capitals.
The bays with their alternations of square-ogival and triangular vaulting do not correspond with the breadth of the radiating chapels, which are connected to one another by three arcades resting on light columns.
In the tall ogival windows, which were glazed only in the houses of the very wealthy, were window seats, and along the rude board or table in the body of the hall were rough benches and stools for the retainers and guests of lesser rank.
We find, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, that the members of this class are beginning to build large, solid houses of stone, with ogival windows, and sometimes with lofty towers and crenelated battlements.
Beneath the natural ogival cavity in which the apparition had appeared, at the spot where the pilgrims rubbed the chaplets and medals they wished to consecrate, the rock was quite worn away and polished.
It is astonishingly bright when you remember its dimensions and its imposing height; of sober taste notwithstanding its flowered ogival style, subdued, while what the Spaniards delight to call everything here, "sumptuous.
The cupola rests on four admirably wrought pillars, its form is octagon, with an ogival dome and a window in each face.
This screen is very beautiful, being composed of two ogival windows in the richest style, with eight statues occupying the intervals of their lower mullions.
A small quadrangle is surrounded by an ogival or pointed arcade, enriched with all the ornament that style is capable of receiving.
Its grand Cathedral, the most consummate type which exists of the great ogival architecture of the thirteenth century, stands, the archæologists tell us, on the spot where the Romans planted their citadel sixteen centuries ago.
The houses are well built--the church is a handsome, ogival building of the fifteenth century, restored in our day, but quite in keeping with the place and its associations.
The ogival windows are filled with rich, stained glass; all the ancient monuments which escaped the fury of 1793 have been excellently restored, and the church bears witness in its condition to the active piety of the faithful of Aire.
It is lighter than ordinary Russian Churches, lofty, with an ogival vaulted roof and almost entirely covered with frescoes.
We have seen how the leaf-shaped sword was evolved from the ogival dagger in the plain of Hungary, and passed through a series of forms until it reached the Hallstatt type, which gave way to the iron sword.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ogival" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
