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A little window with two cinquefoiled openings enabled the priest to look down into the chapel, the height of the sill from the floor suggesting that it might serve as a prie-dieu.
The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003
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A little window with two cinquefoiled openings enabled the priest to look down into the chapel, the height of the sill from the floor suggesting that it might serve as a prie-dieu.
The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003
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Of these the three at either end are comprised under a sub-arch, in the head of which are three cinquefoiled circles, while the central light of the seven is surmounted by an arch, not so high as its neighbours, but impaling upon its acute point a huge circle which fills the head of the window and contains six trefoils radiating from its centre.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The large buttresses on each side of the central group of windows have four niches on each side, the three upper ones having bases to support statues; the upper and lower of these have trefoiled heads, the two others cinquefoiled heads.
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Perpendicular period, the bay next to the tower displays from the ground to the triforium a plain surface broken only by a pointed doorway surmounted by three cinquefoiled niches with ogee crocketed hoods.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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A little window with two cinquefoiled openings in his wall enabled the priest to look down into the chapel., and the height of the sill from the floor suggests that it may have served him as a
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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In all the faces just below the open parapet are arcades of cinquefoiled arches, some of them pierced for windows.
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The lancets in the west face are all cinquefoiled, and the three lower tiers here have trefoils in the spandrels.
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In the upper tier the lancets are trefoiled, with dogtooth in the moulding; in the next lower tier the lancets are cinquefoiled, with two sets of dogtooth.
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In the wall that shuts off the guard-room is a cinquefoiled piscina and
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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