Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 239
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. LECTURE XV.] 209 On looking at the top surface of vaulting where the ribs are visible, it is at once seen that this was also necessitated by a structural cause, as without it the filling in would not rest well upon the ribs (Fig. 383)- No better specimen of this form of… … Fig. 384. — Westminster Abbey. Vaulting west of the crossing. erected by Edward I. about 1280 to 1300 (Fig. 384). The latter is the more perfect, as having level ridges ; vol. 11. p
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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