What is "arcading"

Usage examples of "arcading".

An arcading of intersecting round-headed arches runs all round this storey.

The outside of this is decorated with an arcading of intersecting arches, which indicates a somewhat later date.

The arcading of the south aisle of the nave has been terribly tampered with.

Some of the piers of the nave arcading have also been partially renewed.

Here Mr Ferrey, the architect, by whom much of the restoration was carried out, discovered traces of an external chantry and the marks of an arcading corresponding to that still remaining on the inside.

The cloisters have entirely disappeared, but a series of round-headed arches, formed of stucco, may conceal a stone arcading similar to that hidden by the Early English facing of the north wall.

It is noteworthy to remark that the original arcading is cut away to make room for this monument, so that the chapel had been finished before he died.

The arcading under the window, a series of ogee arches, is worthy of notice.

These aisles were divided from the presbytery not by open arcading but by solid walls.

Hugh of Eversden began to rebuild this ruined part of the church, and this accounts for the five bays of the nave arcading westward of the rood-screen being in fourteenth-century style.

It will be noticed that this arcading did not follow the division into bays of the aisle walls above.

To strengthen it Lord Grimthorpe built buttresses, naturally following the division of the upper part of the walls, but thereby cutting across the arcading of the cloister walk in a most ugly fashion.

Under this arcading in the transept is a doorway, built by Lord Grimthorpe, partly from fragments of the west doorway of the old slype, and partly from his own design.

The arcading round these walls is new, much of it carved under the direction of Lord Grimthorpe by Mr.

He finished the repairs to the south arcading and south aisle begun by Abbot Hugh, built three altars, and vaulted the aisle.