Meanings
- not comparableHaving five lobes or having the shape of a cinquefoil.
Edingthorpe, Norfolk. — A window with two ogee-headed lights, both cinquefoiled, supporting a centrepiece pointed above and ogee below. In it is inscribed a quatrefoil with double foliation.
1913, Francis Bond, An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century, page 6322 more examples
The nave has, on the north side, one single trefoiled window, and another of two lights cinquefoiled. The south side has a window of two lights cinquefoiled, and another of two lights trefoiled.
1834, Collectanea topographica et genealogica, page 211The E. wall is continued to form the end wall of the N. range and contains the E. window of the old Chapel under a gable flanked, on the N., by a square turret with stone quoins and one and two-light windows with cinquefoiled openings ...
1959, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
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