Spandril

In the spandril over the centre shaft there is a circular panel with a Virgin and Child; below are the arms of the diocese of Brechin on a shield. ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)

The frescoes of Giotto and his school enrich every spandril and interspace with their simple, serious forms -- no other such place to study the art of that early day -- but a Virgin enthroned among saints by Lo Spagna, a disciple of Perugino's, made a pure light in the obscurity: it had all the master's golden transparency, like clear shining after the rain. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the spandril above the outer archway is carved, 'amid elegant scroll-work and foliage, an arm, vested in an ermine maunch, the hand grasping a golden fleur-de-lys' -- the old coat-armour of the Mohuns; and on the other spandril 'three lions passant in pale,' the bearing of the Carews. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)

GAMBIA; below, the value, which, as well as the spandril ornamentation, is embossed in white. ❋ Frederick John Melville (1911)

Quite a different feeling, corresponding to differences in conception and spirit in design, comes in with the Roman round _arch_ its allied forms of _spandril_ and _vault_, _lunette_ and _medallion_, presenting new spaces for the surface designer, and new suggestions of ornamental line (see illustration, p. 117 [f069]). ❋ Walter Crane (1880)

On the right side of the nave, at the spring of the arches, between two of the piers, is a centaur armed with a bow, cut in the stone, and on the opposite spandril are two goats, disposed back to back, also cut in the rock. ❋ Unknown (1879)

In the spandril of the arch on the south side of the chancel is a marble medallion of the Duke of Wellington, presented by his son, and in the corresponding position on the north side one of the Duke of Marlborough, presented by the Earl of Cadogan. ❋ A. Murray Smith (1868)

Piazzetta side, of which one spandril is masonry of the fourteenth and the other of the fifteenth century. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

The suspension-bolts are enclosed within spandril pillars of cast iron, which give great stiffness to the superstructure. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

a central shaft of the same, which divides it into two subordinate arches, with an opening in the spandril between them. ❋ Unknown (N/A)