Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 184
LECTURES ON [LECTURE XIII. i58 it is better that they should rest upon projecting piers ; and it is obvious that for these pilasters or columns … may be substituted. The crypt under the Church of the Holy Trinity at Caen is a good example of this class of vaulting (Fig. 3 1 9). When we apply the trans- verse rib to this vaulting, we give it at once a strictly architectural character, as every compartment is now distinctly defined (Figs. 320,…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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