Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 462
r - 1 III. 126. —Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen. Exterior Elevation and Section Restored by Ruprich-Robert GROIN VAULTS precisely this same arrangement of groin vaults with transverseribs. It is impossible to say whether the knowledge of thisconstruction had lingered on in the North since the days of … III. 127.—Plan of St. George de Bocherville. (From Ruprich-Robert) Charlemagne, or whether it was newly imported from Italy.No groin vaults earlier than 1050 have come down to us in Nor-mandy; but it may very possibly be that they were employed. 251 NORMAN ARCHITECTURE Much the same uncertainty…
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