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The cathedrals of England and Wales. First-[third] series (1905)

Bumpus, Thomas Francis · New York, J. Pott · leaf 80

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ep the walls in order. One is glad to know that it isthe intention to add flying buttresses to the pinnaclesalready existing on the south side of the nave, andto supply both to the opposite one, which hasso long exclaimed for them, for the thrust of theroof is telling very distinctly on the… … YORK 55 considered, the building will gain immensely by-it. The aisles of the existing nave being made muchwider than those of the old Norman one, necessitatedthe removal of a portion of the western side ofeither transept. When this came to be done it wasfound that the pier separating the two bays…

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