A triplet window is in the lower stage, three-light windows with quatrefoil heads occupying the second, while the third has an arcade of six lancets below a floriated circle flanked by sunk panels and quatrefoils.
The side bays each have a triple porch, a two-lighted window with a quatrefoil in the head, with a window of the same form above it, and higher still the arcading continued from the towers.
In the lower stage is a triple lancet; there is a group of three two-light windows in the story above, and in the upper one an arcade of four lancets grouped under a comprising arch with a quatrefoil in the head.
The aisles show a lancet in the lower story, with a blind couplet beneath a quatrefoil in the gable; the central compartment has a triplet in each story.
On either side the gabled roof is carried by two open elaborately moulded arches with quatrefoil heads, inclosing two trefoil arches supported by clustered detached shafts.
It has also been pointed out that while in the one transept the lancet form rules, in the other the free employment of the circle and the quatrefoil almost foreshadows the Early Decorated style.
Clustered columns of unpolished Purbeck marble on a quatrefoil plan, with smaller detached shafts of lustrous marble at the cardinal points, support, on either side, the ten great arches of the first story of the nave.
Above these is a story of canopied trefoiled arches, with quatrefoil lozenges in their centres.
It originally consisted of three moulded arches, springing from slender quatrefoil shafts, supporting an open gallery.
The aisle roof is flat, and at the top of the outer wall runs a plain parapet pierced with quatrefoil openings.
This tracing chamber is lighted by a two-light window with a quatrefoil in the head in the eastern wall.
The loft has a parapet all round it pierced with quatrefoil openings.
The clerestory of the west wall looking out over the aisle and Lady Chapel roofs is similar to that on the east side and the quatrefoil heads of the two-light windows help to mark the entry into the Decorated period.
The east gable has three graduated windows, that to the transept aisle a quatrefoil within a dog-toothed circle.
Against each side of the square a semi-dome is set, thus producing a quatrefoil plan at the vaulting level.
In plan the church is a domed quatrefoil building, the only example of that type found in Constantinople.
Above the quatrefoil is another representing the Redeemer seated on a cushioned throne with the Virgin, and below another representing St. Michael overcoming Satan.
Each quatrefoil is filled with scenes from the life of Christ, the Virgin, and figures of St. Michael and of the Apostles.
In the heads of the lights are angels kneeling, and in the quatrefoil is a representation of Our Lord in Glory, surrounded by angels.
It is divided into squares, in each of which a quatrefoil encloses a cross of the Order of Christ.
Beneath it is a crypt of similar dimensions, entered through a doorway at the eastern end, and lighted by small quatrefoil openings pierced through the thickness of the walls.
St. Patrick and St. Denis, while the quatrefoil openings beneath were provided with small lockers to receive the offerings of devotees.
The church also contains a fifteenth century octagonal font, placed on a short shaft, each face of which is ornamented by a sunk panel embellished with a quatrefoil placed in a circle, and having a rose in the centre.
Underneath each of the principal niches is a carved quatrefoil within a square, bearing a shield charged with armorial bearings enamelled on copper.
Later issues, similar to the other, with a trefoiled quatrefoil instead of rose in the centre.
Two trefoiled arches are included in a larger arch, with a quatrefoil within a circle filling the head.
This quatrefoil joins the interior angle ones of Zephaniah.
And now, I give in clear succession, the order of the statues of the whole front, with the subjects of the quatrefoils beneath each of them, marking the upper quatrefoil A, the lower B.
The foliated circles themselves are surrounded by a number of small trefoil or quatrefoil openings, not formed of bars, but likewise pierced through the solid stone.
If you now look at the windows of the lower row, of the aisles that is, you will notice that the breadth and importance of the borders which form the framework of the circular and quatrefoil medallions are striking.
The next quatrefoil above this is filled with the Crucifixion.
In the highest quatrefoilis figured the Redeemer in glory, crowned as a king, and seated on a cushioned throne.
In the next quatrefoil above is St. Paul with his sword, and over to the right St. Thomas; still further to the right St. James the Less.
Of course the quatrefoil in reality is always less formal, one pair of leaves more or less hiding or preceding the other.
Nevertheless, they always do, so that the quatrefoilbecomes oblique as well as the cinqfoil, as you see it is in Fig.
Quarterly, argent and azure, in the second and third quarters a quatrefoil of the first, over all a bend barry of six of the second, charged with a quatrefoil also of the first, and gules.
It has been modernised, but still retains a ciborium with quatrefoil piercings and angle pinnacles, bearing much resemblance to that in the cathedral.
The wall above is pierced by oculi of different sizes, some of which have quatrefoil tracery within, and the caps of the columns show an almost Romanesque variety and vivacity.
A central circle on the face contains a shield with a rampant lion, enamelled in blue; round it is a quatrefoil made by four larger circles which overlap at the reentering angle.
In the semicircular tympanum is a round window enclosing a quatrefoil surrounded by an inscription with the date 1213 and the name of Bishop Treguanus.
The uprights between the seats are faced with twisted colonnettes, and the backs have a quatrefoilpattern made by cutting the bars of a rectangular framing ornamentally.
The chasuble has an embroidered cross with figures of Christ and three saints or Apostles, with two little angels censing below the arms, and a quatrefoil in the centre.
The quatrefoil is outlined with white, and filled with scrolls and figures fighting with each other or with beasts.
The solid stem is formed from two quatrefoil balusters between which is a melon knop with mereses above and below.
Although the double-quatrefoil stem units and central melon knop are paralleled by existing glasses, the heavily gadrooned foot is seemingly unknown.
The tympana of the choir triforium arches are filled with plate tracery, quatrefoil and cusped.
In the apse the tracery is a slight variant from that of the choir; the arch-heads are here filled in with trefoil instead of quatrefoil tracery.
The interior elevation of the bays is composed of three features--pier arches, a fine triforium with quatrefoil balustrade, and a rather small clerestory with a passage-way crossing its base.
The triforium has in each bay an arch enclosing two sub-arches with a quatrefoil in the head.
Here too are seen two quatrefoil openings for the reception of offerings.
Five narrow lancets form the east window, and above are five quatrefoil openings.
The triforium has two arches in each bay, each arch has two sub-arches, with cusped heads, and a quatrefoil in the tympanum.
In the tympanum of each trefoil arch there is a quatrefoil and two semi-arches, which are completed by similar ones under the next arch.
This roof has a quatrefoil opening, through which it was possible to see what was taking place in the hall below.
The centre of the cross is composed of a quatrefoil in which is carved the Agnus Dei.
The moulding of these arches of the choir is exceedingly rich, and the outer ones on the north side contain a double moulding of quatrefoil flower ornament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quatrefoil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
