The construction of Lombard and Gothic vaults
A 1911 Yale University Press architectural study by Arthur Kingsley Porter, written for historians and students of medieval building on how Lombard and Gothic vaults were constructed. The plates are sepia halftone photographs of church interiors—ribbed and groin vaults, banded arches, piers with carved capitals, brick soffits—plus measured diagrams, offering designers arch geometry, masonry texture, and deep tonal interiors lit from a single window.
