An introduction to English church architecture from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London, New York, [etc] H. Milford, Oxford University Press · leaf 336
., St. Cross (299) ; the centering which had been employed in the first being reused in the second third, and fourth cell successively. In erecting a groined vault, center- ing had to be erected to carry the whole vault ; in a cross-ribbed vault centering was wanted for only one-fourth of the… … Lessay, Manche Peterborough : South Aisle of Nave a cross-ribbed vault much of the weight falls on the diagonal arches ; the transverse arches, therefore, could be built, and after a time were built, less massive and with less centering, e.g., Beverley choir (300). In both ways a very considerable…
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