# Interlaced arch

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'''Interlaced arches''' is a scheme of decoration employed in [Islamic](/source/Islamic_architecture) and later in [Romanesque](/source/Romanesque_architecture) and [Gothic](/source/Gothic_architecture) architecture, where [arch](/source/arch)es spring from alternate [piers](/source/Pier_(architecture)), interlacing or intersecting one another. In the former case, the first arch [archivolt](/source/archivolt) is carried alternately over and under the second, in the latter the archivolts actually intersect and stop one another.  An example of the former exists in [St Peter-in-the-East](/source/St_Peter-in-the-East) in [Oxford](/source/Oxford%2C_England) and of the latter in St. Joseph’s chapel in [Glastonbury](/source/Glastonbury), and in the [Bristol Cathedral](/source/Bristol_Cathedral).<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Interlaced Arches|short=1|volume=14|page=693}}</ref><ref>{{MW|interlacing arches}}</ref> The arches in the interlacing [arcade](/source/Arcade_(architecture)) can be either [semicircular](/source/Semicircular_arch) or [pointed](/source/Pointed_arch), and usually form purely decorative [blind arcade](/source/blind_arcade)s.{{sfn|Hourihane|2012|p=131|loc=Interlace}}

The interlaced arches are most likely an invention of [Islamic architecture](/source/Islamic_architecture) (cf. [Bab al-Mardum Mosque](/source/Bab_al-Mardum_Mosque), 999-1000 [AD](/source/Anno_Domini) and [Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba](/source/Mosque%E2%80%93Cathedral_of_C%C3%B3rdoba), 833-988{{sfn|Moffett|Fazio|Wodehouse|2003|loc=Islamic Architecture}}). This decoration was especially popular in England, with the most famous example at [Lincoln Cathedral](/source/Lincoln_Cathedral) (St Hugh's choir).{{sfn|Hourihane|2012|p=131|loc=Interlace}}

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File:Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz 01, Toledo.jpg|Bab al-Mardum Mosque
File:Double Arcade - geograph.org.uk - 637902.jpg|Arcade at St Hugh's choir of Lincoln Cathedral
File:Arqueria acceso salon dorado-2.jpg|Non-blind [mixed-line arch](/source/mixed-line_arch)es at [Aljafería Palace](/source/Aljafer%C3%ADa_Palace)
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==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book|last=Hourihane|first=C.|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=1|year=2012|isbn=978-0-19-539536-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA131|access-date=2024-12-24|chapter=Arch|pages=129–134}}
* {{cite book|last1=Moffett|first1=M.|last2=Fazio|first2=M.W.|last3=Wodehouse|first3=L.|title=A World History of Architecture|publisher=Laurence King|series=Monographics (Series : Laurence King Publishing)|year=2003|isbn=978-1-85669-371-4|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFMohetegAcC&pg=PA6|access-date=2024-12-24|chapter=Islamic Architecture}}

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