The finial is a three-quarter figure, and an angel occupies thespandrel between the arch and the label.
In construction the bracket castings were set at proper intervals on the spandrel walls, which had been completed up to the level of the line X Y.
Each culvert had a small spandrel wall at each end.
To permit further of the adjustment of the portion of the masonry above the backs of the main arches, the crown of the middle arch of each set of spandrel arches was left unconcreted until the center of the main arches had been struck.
In constructing an open spandrel arch bridge at St. Paul, Minn.
Figure 293, shows the face form for the arch ring, spandrel wall and cornice or coping course of the Big Muddy River Bridge on the Illinois Central R.
The centering of the main arches was not struck until the spandrel arches and all the work above the main arches to the bottom of the coping had been completed.
For the arches and spandrel walls the gravel was passed over a 2-in.
The first and third spandrel arch on each side of the piers was made with an expansion joint in the crown.
The west window appears to have been a fine cusped circular opening, under a pointed arch, the spandrel between the two being filled with circles similar to the traceries in the steeple of San Miguel.
The small spandrel between the round arch of this door and the pointed arch of the vault above, is filled with a circle containing the monogram, [Illustration: monogram] supported by two angels.
The roof of the apse is considerably lower than that of the choir, and a small rose window is pierced in the spandrel between the two.
The cross arches under the lantern are lower than the groining, and on the east face the spandrel between the two is filled in with rich tracery and arcading.
Illustration: Spandrel of the tomb of Oliver Groos, Esq.
Spandrel of the tomb of Oliver Groos, esquire (ob.
The roof, which is of chestnut, is of hammer-beam construction, with moulded spandrel brackets and circular shafts.
The date 1608 is on the door with the arms of Pettus in onespandrel and his wife’s on the other.
The towers of Norman churches often show windows of two lights separated by a central shaft, all enclosed under a large semi-circular arch, the spandrel of which is rarely pierced.
In the spandrel between the arches there lies a recessed rosette.
There are four such holes in each pilaster and one in the spandrel between the arches.
The left-hand large spandrel contains the figure of an angel feathered to the elbow and knee, his wings outspread, and a label proceeding from one hand.
Each spandrel is pierced by trefoils and quatrefoils, and at the apse the triforium spandrels are entirely covered with foliage.
In each spandrel of the main arcade is cut an elaborate rosette before which stands the shaft that mounts to the vault-springing.
I'm afraid I don't know what a spandrel is," Christopher announced with appealing frankness.
Well, a spandrel is the small brass ornament at the corner that fills in the triangular gap left between the circular face and the square outline of the case.
The spandrel carving is pierced; that is, has the ground cut right through.
The upper one is a spandrel piece from the traceried arcading of the stalls.
But whatever the colour of the field, that of the spandrel is generally a light blue, indicative of the sky, and the overlying panel is frequently a dark blue.
The field usually contains floral figures, arranged in formal order; the spandrel is almost always extended in two narrow stripes, one at each side of the field; and the colours are always subdued.
In the spandrel are constantly seen serrated leaves, rosettes, and designs peculiar to the Ladik.
Showing cherub's head with floriated design in spandrel and broken frieze.
This, later, disappeared, and the spandrel had only a matted surface, in contrast to the rest of the dial.
After the two cherubs on the clock spandrel came further floriated designs minus the cherub's head.
It was, therefore, nothing new; it was a pleasing spandrel ornament which appealed to the clockmaker as suitable to clock dials.
We realize that the clockmaker could not cast the brass spandrelornaments and chase them, or engrave the dial.
The clockmaker modified this in his metal spandrel ornaments.
Above the reredos a broad spandrel left by two pointed arches springing from a central pier fills the upper part of the Norman arch.
A central pillar divides this lower arch, two pointed arches springing from its capital and leaving a spandrel between them, which is covered with modern sculpture.
The spandrel is covered with modern sculpture, as may be seen in the illustration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spandrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
