Interlaced arches is a scheme of decoration employed inRomanesque andGothic architecture, wherearches spring from alternatepiers, interlacing or intersecting one another. In the former case, the first archarchivolt 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 inSt Peter-in-the-East inOxford and of the latter in St. Joseph’s chapel inGlastonbury, and in theBristol Cathedral.^[1][2] The arches in the interlacingarcade can be eithersemicircular orpointed, and usually form purely decorativeblind arcades.^[3]

The interlaced arches are most likely an invention ofIslamic architecture (cf.Bab al-Mardum Mosque, 999-1000AD andMosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, 833-988^[4]). This decoration was especially popular in England, with the most famous example atLincoln Cathedral (St Hugh's choir).^[3]

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  Bab al-Mardum Mosque
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  Arcade at St Hugh's choir of Lincoln Cathedral
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  Non-blindmixed-line arches atAljafería Palace

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