The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 312
constructed with such superiorskill as to dispense with these supports . By no means; the clumsy vaults ofSt. Pauls, London, mere coffered semi-arches, without ribs or intersections,hace their flyiny buttresses ; but as this style of architecture does not admitof the yreat principle of decorating…
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