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A stilted arch (also surmounted) is an arch where the bottom of the intrados consists of vertical sections, or stilts, and the arch springs from the vertical significantly higher than the impost level. Both semicircular and pointed arches can be stilted.

As a result the stilted arch its center above the impost. In Byzantine architecture the arch was frequently used in order to give more importance to the twin arches of the windows, and less to the shaft which divided them.

The rise (height) of a round arch is limited to 1⁄2 of its span, so it looks more "grounded" than a parabolic arch or a pointed arch. Whenever a higher semicircular arch was required (for example, for a narrow arch to match the height of a nearby broad one), stilting could be used. For example, In Romanesque and Gothic work the semicircular stilted arch was often employed in the semi-circular apses, where in consequence of the closer spacing of the columns the arches were much narrower than those of the choir; in order, however, that the apex of all the arches should be of the same height, the apse arches were stilted. These "shifts and dodges" were dropped once the pointed arch with its malleable proportions was adopted.

References

1. "surmounted arch". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
2. Bliss, Garside & Haslam 2008.
3. Pevsner, Honour & Fleming 1992.
4. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stilted". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
5. ^ Bond 1905, p. 265.
6. Sandaker, Eggen & Cruvellier 2019, p. 445.
7. Bond 1905, p. 262.

Sources

• Bliss, Ian; Garside, Roger; Haslam, Ray, eds. (2008). "Stilted Arch". Ruskin's Venetian Notebooks Notes. Lancaster University. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
• Bond, Francis (1905). Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of English Church Architecture from the Norman Conquest to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Collections spéciales. B. T. Batsford. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Honour, Hugh; Fleming, Nikolaus (1992). Lexikon der Weltarchitektur (in German) (3 ed.). Munich: Prestel. ISBN 3-7913-2095-5.
• Sandaker, B.N.; Eggen, A.P.; Cruvellier, M.R. (2019). The Structural Basis of Architecture. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-22918-6. Retrieved 2023-12-15.

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