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SPANDRIL, or SPANDREL (formerly splau...

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPANDRIL, or SPANDREL (formerly splaundrel, a word of unknown origin)  , in architecture, the space between any arch or curved brace and the level label, beams, &c., over the same . The spandrils over doorways in Perpendicular
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work are generally richly decorated . At Magdalen College, Oxford, is one which is perforated, and has a most beautiful effect . The spandril of doors is sometimes ornamented in the Decorated period; but seldom forms
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part of the composition of the doorway itself, being generally over the label .

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