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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 1070

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stay but thepillars themselves, which, as they are usually proportioned, if they stood alone, without theweight above, could not resist the spreading of the aisles one minute : true, indeed, thegreat load above of the walls and vaulting of the nave should seem to confine the pillars Chap. IV.… … KING S COLI-rCE CHAPEI. : PIERS. Fig 1312. seen at home or abroad, wherein I have not observed the pillars to yield and bend inwardsfrom the weight of the vault of the aisle ; but this defect is the most conspicuous upon theangular pillars of the cross, for there not only the vault wants butment,…

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