Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 87
heir greatheight notwithstanding, beside acomparatively modest performancelike the vault of Exeter, to saynothing of such a miracle in stone asthe vault of Kings College Chapel,at Cambridge (Fig. 120). Important examples of the Per-pendicular period abound, althoughno building of the first… … purpose that he confinedhimself to its structural de-velopment, carrying that tocompletion and there stay-ing his hand. His Englishrival was less thorough inhis appreciation of the vaultas an engineering contriv-ance, but, on the otherhand, he made more use ofit as an aesthetic climax to
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