arcading

The arcading is a nineteenth-century imitation of Norman work; the pavement is glaringly modern.

Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Thomas Perkins 1874

"the roof is red-tiled," says a recent observer, "the long blank wall faced with rough-cast of a warm yellowish tinge, and supported on a range of broad and low timber arcading, which is, in its turn, supported by a dwarf wall some three feet in height."

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912

Its builders incorporated the ruins of the 11th-century church into a new facade after it was damaged in 1192, clashing simple round arches with baffling runs of blind arcading.

Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

The row of blind arcading see p18 around the outside is distinctly pre-Norman, but the most remarkable features are the "Bradford Angels" – two finely carved relief sculptures of flying angels, carrying cloths to wipe a long-disappeared Christ on the cross.

Early medieval architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

The blind arcading pattern and inscriptions in Armenian that cover the church's external walls are reflected throughout the site on the elegant Church of the Redeemer, built to house a fragment of the True Cross, and the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Time-Traveling in Armenia James Fidler 2010

“Eve was right,” he said to himself, as he went back under the stone arcading for some more money.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

The morning sun shone unhampered on strings of bright flags, which fluttered gently from the ridge lines of the big top's spreading roof right down to the ground in a blizzard of strings, arcading the whole huge tent like an arch of honour.

Decider Francis, Dick 1993

Here in the aisles, under the windows, the wall was decorated with blind arcading, like a row of filled-in arches.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

He wanted to carve a whole doorway all by himself; he wanted to persuade Tom to have stone angels in the clerestory; he had an innovative design for blind arcading in the transepts which he had not even shown to anyone yet.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The arcading served no purpose but it added to the sense of harmony Aliena felt when she looked at the building.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989