Beyond these again are the large shafts with their ogee trefoiled arch, which though they spoil the beauty of the design, at the same time do more than all the rest to give that strange character which it possesses.
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 opening of the door itself has a trefoiled head, whose hollow moulding is enriched with small well-carved roses and flowers.
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Only the innermost betrays its really late origin by the curious crossing and interpenetrating of the mouldings of its large trefoiled head.
Within comes the doorway itself; a large trefoiled arch of many mouldings of which the outermost, richly crocketed, turns up as an ogee, to pierce the horizontal line above with its finial.
The angles have shafts, and there is a pointed trefoiled cornice with carved mouldings and cornice above.
It has a trefoiled ogee-window and a great balcony above it, with trellises behind which the nuns can take the air without being seen, recalling those of Sicilian nunneries.
On each side of the door is a window of two trefoiled lights with slender shafts, and above it a rose with Gothic tracery.
These bear a pierced pattern and projecting triangles, serving as spandrils to the trefoiled arches, which are incised on the spaces between.
Quirinus, another work of much the same period, has saints under a pointed trefoiled arcade on twisted and horizontally ringed columns, with foliage in the spandrils.
The illustration shows the three stages of trefoiled arches, the two lower with coupled colonnettes.
A ramping cornice of shallow arches with dentils above it finishes the wall, the centre portion of which is pierced with a two-light trefoiled window blocked up below, while a chapel to the north is lighted by simple-pointed windows.
Along the aisle roof a carved cornice runs, and above the trefoiledpointed clerestory windows is an arched corbelled cornice.
The trefoiled heads are cut in the rail with the carved spandrils between.
John in relief, with a frieze of a hunting subject, the figures beneath trefoiled arches on twisted columns; on the back, SS.
In actual detail it varies, according to its date and whereabouts, from something very much like Romanesque strapwork to the more or less trefoiled foliage typical of Early Gothic ornament, whether French or English.
East of the porch are two round-headed three-light trefoiled perpendicular windows.
The vestry, at the east end of the north aisle, has one small trefoiled window.
The north and south chancel walls have each one two-light trefoiled window, with quatrefoil above; plain glass, except the coloured band.
In the south wall of the chancel is a wide stone seat, and above it a two-light trefoiled window.
There is a plain trefoiled window above in the tower; the lower part of the spire having two lancet windows, with a circle above them, and a small single-light window on each side, half way up.
In the north chancel wall is a trefoiled credence table.
The two two-light trefoiled windows in the south wall of the nave have been framed in stone instead of wood, and filled with green glass.
In the first three western bays in both aisles the large arcading, with its plain trefoiled arches, is clearly Early English.
Larger windows of the same form, with small shafts radiating from the centre and connected at the circumference by semi-circular or trefoiled arches, are also found as at Barfreston church, Kent, where there is a fine example.
The doorpiece is surrounded by three gablets, the central one still retaining a trefoiled arch.
Each arch of the triforium is acutely pointed, and contains two smaller pointed arches within it, each of which has an inner trefoiled arch.
The lower arcade contains five pointed arches, with a trefoiled arch within each.
This passage was lighted in the first bay by a single light with trefoiled head, with very wide internal splay.
The upper storey has, towards the street, an arcade of four arches, and the outer pair have each a trefoiled niche or panel in the back.
Two trefoiled arches are included in a larger arch, with a quatrefoil within a circle filling the head.
The upper stalls have elaborate trefoiled canopies, surmounted by an intricate maze of buttresses and pinnacles, rising to a height of 24 ft.
On the north side, the trefoiled arch is against the wall, and the simple arch in front; on the other side the order is reversed.
It is in the form of six slender canopies, with trefoiled arches.
Just beneath these windows, an arcade of trefoiled arches runs along the whole length of the nave, being continued on the screen walls to the western chapels.
The reredos, an arcading of slender arches each enclosing a trefoiled arch impaling a trefoil, is a restoration of the original Decorated work.
Of the buttresses, that adjoining the doorway has in its front, as well as in the side toward the lobby, a small trefoiled and moulded recess.
In the end of the aisle the blocked upper window is pointed, and has a little trefoiledniche above and to the left of it, and there is no thickening of the masonry above to necessitate carrying-arches.
In the towers the lowest of the four stages is relieved by a little arcade of six trefoiled arches, with detached shafts, fluted capitals, and dripstones not trefoiled and terminating in heads.
None of the original thirteen can have seen the trefoiled door and gigantic wheel-window of the west front; for this, the most striking part of the existing ruin, was probably the finishing touch to a very splendid church.
Vexed by the want of unity between his two windows he literally laid their heads together, and so distorted their ogee curves, as to leave only one of the trefoiled panels above, on the inner side, and three on the outer side of each arch.
The pointed arch is beautiful; it is the termination of every leaf that shakes in summer wind, and its most fortunate associations are directly borrowed from the trefoiled grass of the field, or from the stars of its flowers.
The characteristic features of the Kashmirian architecture are its lofty pyramidal roofs, its trefoiled doorways, covered by pyramidal pediments, and the great width of the intercolumniations.
These windows are constructed with trefoiled heads of stone, enclosed within an arch of mixed stone and brick, round whose outer edge runs a band of delicate terra-cotta ornament.
It is flanked by massive buttresses, and has two large and lofty trefoiled lancets, surmounted by a circular window of great size; the whole is very richly moulded and executed entirely in brick.
This consists of a series of piers finished with a steep gabled outline, and pierced with trefoiled openings.
Thence came the trefoiled arches so frequent in Italy, and always so very lovely.
The doorway is square-headed, with an ogee trefoiled archway or window on either side, and a sitting figure of a bishop under a slight canopy over the doorway.
The tomb consists of a plain slab of marble, with a cross upon it, supported by twelve low pillars, with plain capitals, and trefoiled arches.
They contain five lights, each light terminating in a trefoiled arch.
Below the aisle windows runs an arcade with trefoiled arches, which is very plain and simple in its details.
In the western bays the arches between the mullions of the triforium are cinquefoiled (they are trefoiled in the eastern bays), and the bases are much shorter.
Below the windows runs an arcade of very simple panelling, four divisions to each window, and two trefoiled arches in each division.
Two tiers of trefoiled arches are above this, and higher still the triforium, the spandrels of the arches being enriched with sculpture.
In the lowest is an arcade of trefoiled arches, and above lancets.
Above the string-course is a series of trefoiled arches, some of which have statues.
The aisles have lancet windows, and below a beautiful arcade of trefoiled arches, the south side being more elaborate than the north.
The clerestory windows consist of one lofty pointed window and a small trefoiled one on each side.
The shafts of the arcade support trefoiled arches, with a cinquefoil ornamented with a sculptured boss.
Above this is placed a Calvary cross of alabaster with gemmed and inlaid arms and trefoiled ends.
The internal part of the vesica panel is occupied with the white marble bust, life size, placed on an enriched corbel of alabaster, on which corbel are inclined pillars which support a trefoiled and gabled canopy overhanging the bust.
In Clemping Church, Sussex, is an early chest of the thirteenth century, the front of which exhibits a series of plain pointed arches trefoiled in the head, and other carved work.
The great piers of the transept are trefoiledin section.
The oldest masonry, with its delicate tracery of four arches and three trefoiled roses to each arcade, seems to have been virtually eaten away by time.
The fine old shafts, separating the trefoiledor quatrefoiled arcade, are hidden by crocketed pinnacles and a traceried balcony.
This practice, however, was so often neglected that ordinances were framed enjoining the use of the Coronal or trefoiled button, which is shown on Plate XI, 15.
The west wall is panelled in three main arches, with an upper story reaching to the height of the triforium base, and containing an arcade of four arches, subdivided each into two smaller trefoiled ones, with cinquefoil heads.
Above these is a story of canopied trefoiled arches, with quatrefoil lozenges in their centres.
The slab and effigy are stone, but the base is of wood encircled by an arcade of trefoiled arches.
The trefoiled tracery is satisfactory, and exquisitely carved faces look down upon you from the corbels of the drip-stones.
Each is worked into a small trefoiled arch, with an incision round it to mark its outline, and another slight incision above, expressing the angle of the first cutting.
Briefly this is a Greek temple pediment, in which, doubtful of their power to carve figures beautiful enough, they cut a trefoiled hold for ornament, and bordered the edge with a harlequinade of mosaic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trefoiled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
