The groundwork of the quatrefoils is of gold-laid or "couch" work, as is also that of the armorial bearings.
The ground of these quatrefoils is covered with red silk and the spaces between them with green silk.
The chief place on the quatrefoils is given to the crucifixion, where the body of the Saviour is worked in silver and cloth of gold.
The whole of the cope except the border is covered with interlacing quatrefoils outlined in gold.
Donate, with many jewels and a pierced band of quatrefoils with some of a larger number representing the opening of the sleeve; one with plaques of translucent enamel and vine scrolls said to contain a finger of S.
The second story is lighted by four little square windows, and above are three quatrefoils to give air to the roof timbers.
Gothic details still appear as in the shafted two-light windows, with the pierced quatrefoils above and the twisted shafts at the angles.
It is a circular flat plaque, the pattern on which consists of fourquatrefoils with blue centres on a red ground, and four small circles of yellow enamel between them.
Silver-gilt decorations of the mitre: comprising two quatrefoils set with turquoises, two rosettes set with pastes, and hinged bands of brasse-taille enamel set with pearls and crystals.
The other fragments include two rosettes of beautifully executed Gothic foliation set with white crystals, together with two quatrefoils in silver gilt and a cruciform gold ornament set with turquoises.
The method for grounding the quatrefoils is remarkable for being done in a long zigzag diaper pattern (laid stitch).
On this cope the eight angels standing upon wheels are so placed that they are everywhere nearest to those quatrefoils wherein our Lord's Person comes, and may therefore be taken as representing the upper hierarchy of the angelic host.
The design worked in gold and silks is enclosed in quatrefoils of oak and ivy.
The pattern was a series of quatrefoils painted in stone-colour on the wood, outlined black, and filled with green.
There are several niches for statues, but no figures; and the spandrils of the window arches are relieved by quatrefoils and other ornaments.
There is a music-gallery in the clerestory of the sixth bay on the south side; it is composed of three panels with quatrefoils containing plain shields, and is finished with an embattled cornice.
The clerestory windows above, 5 on each side, are alternately quatrefoils and inverted triangles.
The chancel has a decorated east window of three lights, with three quatrefoils above.
The belfry storey has double windows, and each stage is divided from the one below by bands of quatrefoils which produce rather a formal effect.
The church, which has been rebuilt, has a good tower, with pinnacled buttresses and a row of quatrefoils under the belfry storey.
The stages are divided by bands of quatrefoils (cp.
A sprig of hazel, with nuts, thrown all around the quatrefoils with a squirrel in centre, apparently attached to the tree only by its enormous tail, richly furrowed into hair, and nobly sweeping.
Within the squares of this framework other beams are set in sloping parallel lines, forming patterns of chevron or diamond, or arranged in rows of quatrefoils and arcades of trefoil-headed arches.
Quatrefoils are made by arranging four cusps within a circle.
It is a table tomb in the Perpendicular style, with very rich tracery enriched with quatrefoils and shields.
You noticed the brackets of that doorway: you noticed the quatrefoils in the head?
Yes, I noticed the brackets and quatrefoils particularly.
It is framed by quatrefoils in panels, with the head of a saint in each.
A fine loggia, with cusped arches and quatrefoils above, runs round both the exposed sides of the Palace.
Above this again is a band of quatrefoils at the foot of the gable, which is filled with double couplets of lancets with quatrefoils above their heads; and in the upper spandrils is a quatrefoiled aureole.
Above were eight niches of demi-quatrefoiled arches, with a fascia of quatrefoils surmounted by a cornice of oak leaves.
The style is late thirteenth century with windows of exceedingly graceful design; double arches with quatrefoils above, united in pairs with a large six-foiled circle in the main head.
On the north wall of the aisle is a monument, consisting of an altar-tomb with a front of carvedquatrefoils and a purbeck slab, dating about 1550.
We also find horizontal or straight-sided parapets, covered with sunk or pierced quatrefoils in circles.
The spaces between the quatrefoils were filled with crimson silk which has faded to a rich brown, and in each of these spaces stands a winged angel, those nearest Christ standing on a wheel.
The lowest part consists of three pointed arches with quatrefoilsin the spandrels.
The interior of the porch is very beautiful Early English work, the arcading of quatrefoils being very effective.
The two inner quatrefoils communicate with lockers at the back, and were evidently intended for offerings.
A string-course runs along the top of the arches, and the spandrels have trefoils, quatrefoils and niches with statues.
The chair has lost the quatrefoils in front, and the lions are of recent date.
In the string-course between the two stories quatrefoils are abandoned; it is molded, foliated and battlemented.
The line of demarcation between the two stories, which the Lincoln and Nantwich designs had minimised, is now emphasised by making the band of quatrefoils continuous.
It has already been remarked that the row of quatrefoils above the window outside, are relics of the earlier tracery.
The crooked state of some of the trefoils and quatrefoils of the tympana is probably due to the same cause.
Between the window ranges are arcades of short, deep, trefoiled lancets; at the top below the parapet and corbel table are five quatrefoilsin circles, one not pierced.
It shows only segments of the characteristicquatrefoils of the central windows.
A modern architect would, of course, have made all the five quatrefoils of each pedestal-side equal: not so the Mediaeval.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quatrefoils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
