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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 409

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trength of tliis form that the highest kilns are seldom built more thanone brick thick, althoiigli this dimension would be altogether insufficient for a common wallof the s;niie height. It is, probably, tnis principle which has conduced to the existence oftliL Round Towers of Ireland. That of… … Pointed Auch Vaulting. H99t. We now proceed to enter into a view of the general forms of groining in pointedachiteeture, observing, by the way, that the groins at the anises, u|) to the twelfth century,were seldom moulded witli more tlian a simple torus or .some fillets. In the twelfth century,…

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