relieving arch
discharging arch

Careful construction in medium unit, and two relieving arches supporting the right bank.

Both doors and windows are covered with lintels, above which is a relieving arch.

The brick relieving arches are still visible above the entablature.

Just above it, the stub of an Herodian relieving arch is visible.

The water table which starts the brick construction contains relieving arches above the window openings.

The right section windows have cambered brick relieving arches.

In the front elevation there is an enlarged 1st floor window under relieving arch which lights the first floor hall.

Above the lintels, there are rough brick relieving arches.

The firewalls have two entries with relieving arches and iron sliding doors on tracks.

Relieving arches are incorporated into the walls to reinforce them and concentrate the load on to the eight massive piers.

The north transept has a nineteenth century two-light east window with the relieving arch of an older window well above.

The long windows are topped by relieving arches with decorative infill, similar to the decor over the doors.

Pevsner debates whether these arches are "relieving arches" or decorative.

This rotunda, made of brick-faced concrete, contains a large number of relieving arches and is not solid.

With details like buttresses, relieving arches and windows with divided lights and shutters, it looks regional.

Burges's re-modelling used "twin pointed bays under a single Gothic relieving arch and gable".

It features triangular, wood relieving arches and the gable ends covered with vertical wood planks.

The top of the rotunda wall features a series of brick relieving arches, visible on the outside and built into the mass of the brickwork.

Despite this support, pressure from the vault had caused the lintel to subside and one limb of the poorly-made relieving arch had fallen out.

The bridge has 21 arches: 15 primary arches to carry the deck across the river and six small relieving arches within the larger piers.

The gable has a central louvred window, surmounted by a sandstone relieving arch, with a stepped sandstone moulding below.

Its small windows are constructed with simple relieving arches and stand with the exception of the light into the Ground floor at heights of over thirty feet.

A similar segmental relieving arch can be found at another Roman bridge in central Italy, the Ponte di Pioraco.

The later additions of al-Malik al-Salih included a monolithic column re-used as a lintel, and the four corbels above the relieving arch.

A discharging arch or relieving arch is an arch built over a lintel or architrave to take off the superincumbent weight.

The traditional mandaloun is always surmounted by a discharging arch and is often coupled with hanging flower boxes.

The Romans frequently employed the discharging arch, and inside the portico of the Pantheon the architraves have such arches over them.

The Nilometer at Fustat, near modern Cairo, built in 861, has elaborate and ornate stonework and discharging arches.

A discharging arch or relieving arch is an arch built over a lintel or architrave to take off the superincumbent weight.

In the early Christian churches in Rome, where a colonnade divided off the nave and aisles, discharging arches are turned in the frieze just above the architraves.

In the Golden Gateway of the palace of Diocletian at Split the discharging arches, semicircular in form, were adopted as architectural features and decorated with mouldings.