Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 248
218 LECTURES ON [LECTURE XV. a very different date and from another cause, in the Norman vaulting of the circular Chapter-house at Wor- cester,1 a figure which I have defined as a concave-sided conoid, and likened to the flower of a convolvulus. Now, the vaulting of any space, if set out in square… … Fig. 389. Fig. 390. A remainder of the or- dinary vaulting, with rising ridges, exists, however, above this extemporised fan, and the whole has to be dealt with artistically on a system suited to the new form. The general idea of such treatment of a fan or conoid may be said to be parallel to that…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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