An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 1048
ting, andobserve the changes it underwent, from the simple cylindrical to the more complex anddifficult display of fan tracery or conoidal arches. The ridge ribs, or Uernes, as they aretermed, in the crypt of the Chapter-house at Wells, pass from the centre of the building totlu middle of each… … improvement in the decoration, by the addition of a number of intermediate ribsterininaling against the octangular one in the middle. At a later period we find transverse ribs ma<le ii.sc of, then others between; butalthough the design may seem complicated, yet when laid down the plan will…
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