Examples of 'pointed arches' in a sentence

Meaning of "pointed arches"

Pointed arches are architectural elements with a characteristic pointed apex. They are commonly used in Gothic architecture to distribute weight more efficiently and allow for greater height and larger windows

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Diaphragm pointed arches are also evident.
The gables are additionally emphasised by pointed arches.
There are nine pointed arches in front.
The clerestory contains quatrefoils under pointed arches.
It has pointed arches with cutwaters.
The entrance doors are in pointed arches.
The pointed arches on top floor collapsed on the floors below.
Both doorway and windows have pointed arches.
It has ten pointed arches with large starlings between them.
It is covered with large pointed arches.
The remains of the pointed arches are a prominent feature of the north wall.
The arcades have four bays with pointed arches.
With the pointed arches.
Between the two aisles are pure pointed arches.
The pointed arches of the aforementioned passage are decorated with diamond tips.

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The windows in the extension are set into pointed arches.
The arcades have pointed arches and the portico is covered by crossing vaults.
The mosque also consists of stone domes and pointed arches.
They share a wall containing pointed arches and are now used as a single building.
The main indication of gothic architecture is the sign of pointed arches.
In the top stage are pairs of open pointed arches acting as bell openings.
This side is substantially intact and features decorative brickwork and low pointed arches.
Its interior also includes a number of pointed arches supporting the ceiling.
The arcade has pointed arches each of which rests on thin paired columns.
The aisles are separated from the nave by large pointed arches.
The doors have pointed arches to fend off the elephants and cannon shots.
Both arcades have five bays with round piers and pointed arches.
It consists of pointed arches resting on double Corinthian columns.
On the uppermost levels on both towers are two pointed arches containing pointed windows.
The palace is a rectangular building with a central hall with high ceilings and pointed arches.
Inside the church the blocked arcades have pointed arches carried on clustered piers.
The window openings in the chancel and the aisles are closed with pointed arches.
The church still has pointed arches in early Gothic style.
Most window openings have Gothic pointed arches.
Internally the arcades consist of pointed arches carried on Devonshire marble columns.
The lateral windows are also Gothic with the typical pointed arches.
Pointed arches came from the Orient.
These later elements introduced the Gothic style with pointed arches.
Inside the church are arcades with pointed arches in Early English style.
The tower is surrounded by merlons, leaning on little niches sustaining pointed arches.
Structurally stronger, pointed arches allowed these dramatic, soaring vaults and vast windows.
In the end of these windows, there are pointed arches.
The single-aisle plan was vaulted with pointed arches resting on a re-clad interior elevation.
While the exterior is sharply angular, the interior is dominated by pointed arches.
Here elegant, pointed arches have replaced the earlier more primitive rounded arches.
At the end of the church there are three apses, also surmounted by pointed arches.
It is a late style, with pointed arches and incipient naturalist decoration in archivolts and capitals.
The building was decorated with geometric figures, ceramic, and openings with pointed arches.
These include pointed arches and sloping roofs in the church 's exterior and shrine areas.
Gothic openings such as doorways, windows, arcades and galleries all have pointed arches.

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