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. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
GAMBIA; below, the value, which, as well as the spandril ornamentation, is embossed in white. From Wordnik.com. [Gambia] Reference
Piazzetta side, of which one spandril is masonry of the fourteenth and the other of the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference
The suspension-bolts are enclosed within spandril pillars of cast iron, which give great stiffness to the superstructure. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Westminster The Fascination of London] Reference
A central shaft of the same, which divides it into two subordinate arches, with an opening in the spandril between them. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
"The parapet of the south turret contains a series of quatrefoils, while the pinnacles at the angles are beautifully blended with the clustered shafts, so as to form a regular and continuous course and termination; the mouldings are carried up in high pointed pediments, and from these a cinquefoil arch at each angle, surmounted also by a pediment, with a quatrefoil in the spandril, connects them with the spire in the centre, and sustains a lofty triangular pinnacle, which, like the pediments below, is decorated with crockets and a finial. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
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