The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 192
. Lower Vault, looking South. moulded ribs of large section, measuring 14|^ inches across by 10|inches in depth, with very depressed wall ribs between, formed of an arcof a circle. These ribs spring from corbels (Fig. 139a), and are merely DUNDONALD CASTLE — 173 SECOND PERIOD ornamental^ and not… … Fro. 139. —Dimdonald Castle. View in Great Hall, restored. the weight of the filling in of the vaults surfaces between the ribs. Themethod adopted at Dundonald was often followed in the vaulting ofScotch churches, as for example at St. Giles, Edinburgh, Paisley Abbey,etc., being easier of…
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