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 633
I shows thetracery of the soffite of the vault. The author above quoted observes, The constructionof these fan vaults is in all examples so nearly the same, that they seem to have proceededfrom the same workshop , and it is remarkable that, at least as far as I know, there are an S.J12 R12 TIIKORY… … HENUr THE SEVESTllS CIIAPEI,, WKSTMIXSTER. very numerous; they are confined to small chapels, and tlieir patterns are in general simple.But in Germany and in the Netherlands there is an abundance of tliem, distinguished, cer-tamly, from ours by local peculiarities, but nevertheless of similar…
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