Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Compound arch

An arch formed by concentric arches set within one another

Commonly found in Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival styles

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: St. Paul Episcopal Cathedral
  
  
• St. Joseph RC Cathedral
  
  
• St. Casimir's RC Church
  
  
• Corpus Christi RC Church
  
  
• Michigan Street Baptist Church
  
  
• Jewett M. Richmond House
  
  
• Unitarian Universalist Church
  
  
• Buffalo Seminary

Other examples:

• Notre Dame, Paris, France
  
  
• L'Auditoire de Calvin, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• Chapel of the Maccabeans, Cathédral St. Pierre, Geneva, Switzerland

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