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Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)

Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 253

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lecture xv.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 223 of the divisions was about the following. The whole span being divided into … half as long again as their width set crossway to the building. Let us apply to each the rule I have already laid down for the fan vaulting of oblongs. Beginning with the ideal aisles, from the pillars and responds and cen- tres draw the lower circles of the fans reaching the apex of the narrower…

Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic

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