An approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them.
1 Its lower edge is foliated, and the spandrils are enriched with quatrefoils.
2 Above in the spandrils of the arches are figures of apostles or saints.
3 The side sections of the screen terminate in ogee arches, elaborately cusped and crocketed, with perpendicular tracery in the spandrils .
4 In the spandrils of the arches are figures of Victories, and of old in the tympanum we might have seen Theodoric on horseback.
5 The way to give stability to the arch is to fill the spandrils with good masonry up to the level of its summit.
6 She is to design eight spandrils for Machinery Hall, each one being twenty-eight by fifteen feet in size, with figures larger than life.
7 The ground of it is gold, the sculpture in the spandrils is not more than an inch and a half deep, rarely so much.
8 In 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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