The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · F

Four-centred arch

Also called Tudor arch

A low, pointed arch struck from four centres, two on the springing line and two below it; the Tudor arch of English Perpendicular.

See also: Perpendicular tracery

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Arch.

Nearby in the glossary

Flying buttress · Foil · Folly · Form-finding · Four-iwan plan · Free façade · Free plan · Frequency