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 657
;li this was byno means their invariable characteristic. An angle of 90^ was perhaps the ordinary eleva-tion of Norman roofs, and in the early Enirlish period, though generally acutely pointed,roofs are nevertheless found of an equilateral pitch or angle of 60°, ihougli this is of rareoceiirrence.… … style, over the lirger south aisle of St. IM.irins Church, Leicester, has a ipan of 21 feet,wjtli ;i rise of only 4 feet. (See par. 2040b.). CO.iiM. I. Tlie tie-htam bears the whole \vei,-»ht of a low pitched roof. The roof overtlie south chapel of Kiddington Ciuirch, Oxfordshire, is of ratlier a…
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