Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford [etc.] Parker and Co. · leaf 222
for a shield of arms only, and this moreoften remains. Sometimes there is a half-arch throughthe lower part of the buttress, as at Gloucester, andthis is quite distinct from the flying buttress, the ob-ject of which usually is to support the wall of theclere-storey, by carrying the pressure across… … In this excellent example it will at once be seenthat the upper end of each of the arch-buttresses mustcatch the lower end of the timbers of the roof, and soconveys the pressure to the outer wall, where againthe weight of the vertical pinnacle helps to counteractthe side pressure of the…
Architecture, Gothic
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