roll-mouldings

Updated: May 1, 2025

Beneath the outer arch, which is continued to the buttresses by half-arches, are the great roll-mouldings that twist backward to a plain tympanum. Capitals still support these massive curves of stone, but the niches in which the columns formerly stood are empty, and grinning lions, lying on the ground, no longer support the larger columns of the plain arch. All stands in solemn decay.

Elise Whitlock Rose - Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1