The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . t remark-able examples occurs of its use in com-mon with the later form of arch in the main features of the architectural design. Corresponding inbreadth to each bay of the nave is a large semicircular arch springfrom short clustered columns, with moulded capitals, nearly resem-bling those of the plainer First-pointed pillars of the nave. The richmouldings of the triforium arch are recessed to the same depth as thepointed arches below, and are again subdivided by a slender clusteredcolumn into two pointed and cusped cinquefoil arches, with a
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . t remark-able examples occurs of its use in com-mon with the later form of arch in the main features of the architectural design. Corresponding inbreadth to each bay of the nave is a large semicircular arch springfrom short clustered columns, with moulded capitals, nearly resem-bling those of the plainer First-pointed pillars of the nave. The richmouldings of the triforium arch are recessed to the same depth as thepointed arches below, and are again subdivided by a slender clusteredcolumn into two pointed and cusped cinquefoil arches, with a quaterfoilin the space between. A similar arrangement, though executed in aless ornate style, occurs in the nave of Dunkeld Cathedral, the workof Bishop Robert de Cardeny, 1406,^ while the practical end in viewmay be observed in the nave of Holyrood Abbey, where a constructivesemicircular arch is thrown from pillar to pillar at the same elevation,though there concealed by the triforium screen. The object in both Vitue Dunkel., p. .MEDIEVAL ECCLESIOLOGY. 62^ cases obviously was to tlirow the principal weight upon the supporting-columns of the centre aisle. These examples serve to shew the inter-changeable use of the round and pointed arch by the Scottish architectas it best suited his purpose, or harmonized with the general arrange-ments of his design. So also in the doorways, the clere-story windows,and the tracery, the ronndcd arch is systematically used in the ScottishDecorated period interchangeably with the later pointed forms. Butthe taste for rounded forms also manifests itself in other ways : in cir-cular turret stair-cases, as at Linlithgow, and formerly in that attachedto the beautiful south porch of St. Giless, Edinburgh ; and again inthe vaulted roofs of belfry towers, wdiere the converging ribs meet ina largo open moulded circle, as at St. Giless, Edinburgh, St. Michaels,Linlithgow, the collegiate churches of Seton and Torphichen, and tillrecentl
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