An approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them.
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1For the arches and spandrel walls the gravel was passed over a 2-in.
2The martyrdom of St Edmund in the next spandrel is a most realistic picture.
3The spandrel arch centers were each used twice and cost per M. ft. B. M. for
4The first and third spandrel arch on each side of the piers was made with an expansion joint in the crown.
5This comes close to being the sort of "spandrel" that Ron Pies discusses in his critique of Lehrer's article.
1Its lower edge is foliated, and the spandrils are enriched with quatrefoils.
2Above in the spandrils of the arches are figures of apostles or saints.
3The side sections of the screen terminate in ogee arches, elaborately cusped and crocketed, with perpendicular tracery in the spandrils.
4In the spandrils of the arches are figures of Victories, and of old in the tympanum we might have seen Theodoric on horseback.
5The way to give stability to the arch is to fill the spandrils with good masonry up to the level of its summit.
6She is to design eight spandrils for Machinery Hall, each one being twenty-eight by fifteen feet in size, with figures larger than life.
7The ground of it is gold, the sculpture in the spandrils is not more than an inch and a half deep, rarely so much.
8In the spandrils of its archway are carved the arms of Henry VIII., with the griffin and greyhound for supporters and the royal crown above.
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