Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 214
ogous to that before described as having raised ridges would obviate this inaccuracy. Suppose, for example, an oblong compartment with pointed arches of similar proportions on all its sides and on its diagonals, and the vaults of each cell gene- rated by the motion of the curve of the surrounding… … are not essentials, but where the nar- rower arches approach the height of the wider ones, a curious effect is produced on the form of the ridge, which, always elliptical, becomes then so obviously so as to be unpleasing. This form of vault was of very frequent use, though
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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