Sentence examples for lancet arch from inspiring English sources
noun
A sharp pointed arch used in doors and windows, etc. This type of architecture was peculiar to England in the 13th Century.
The lancet arch is a variety of pointed arch in which each of the arcs, or curves, of the arch have a radius longer than the width of the arch.
The Great Room also boasts a grand staircase, Lancet arched doorways, wrought-iron Juliet-style balconies, and a monumental stained glass Gothic fireplace worthy of Il Duomo di Firenze cathedral in Florence.
The style, with its simple untraceried lancet arches and convoluted mouldings, is known as Early English Gothic.
The particular character of this Early English interior is dependent on the proportions of the simple lancet arches.
It was brought to Britain by the Cistercians, whose abbeys retained thick walls, but pierced them with lancet arches with slender pointed arches.
The five church bells are located on the cathedral's roof behind a tripartite screen of lancet arches on the left side of the façade.
Meanwhile, the two-family houses along Townsend Avenue, near Clifford Place, dress themselves up with peaked lancet-arch doorways and a medley of brick courses.
The columns are braced with heavy timber lintel on open sides supported by pegged heavy timber brackets that form a lancet-head arch.
Although the base Norman columns were left alone, lancet pointed arches were placed over them in the triforium and some heavy columns were substituted with clustered pillars.
Lancet — An acutely pointed arch or window.
But it's a fine example of the early English style – not yet reaching for gothic heights, although the pointed arches and lancet windows mark a clear departure from Norman style.
