Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 224
single square. As, however, this leaves the alternate piers unrepresented in the vaulting, it became frequent to carry across from this intermediate pier a single trans- verse rib crossing the diagonals at their point of inter- section, and between it and those diagonals to intro- duce oblique… … Fig. 364. ordinary vaulting being auadripzrtite, as having four cells. It is obvious that, in a square building of two bays on each of its sides, this may be carried out on all four sides, and thus become an ^/^partite vault (Fig.
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