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A short history of architecture (1897)

Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman,1861-1892 · New York, C. Scribner's · leaf 173

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of the mainvault, so that the summits of the side vaults and thewalls erected between them, which were at rightangles to the nave, served to counteract the strainof the upper vault. We have examples of this inthe cathedral of Limoges and at Fontenay, but itis open to the same objection, that of… … ROMANESQUE CONST

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