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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 617

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FiR. 611. I 954. Where the piers supporting groins (fff-64i.) are made octangular, tlie angles of thegroins slioiilcl be cut oft or arched as ribs, bywhich they are rendered much stronger thanwhen they are square. In stone groins, wherethe arch is cut oft, there is no advantage in pointof strength,…

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