American churches ... A series of authoritative articles on designing, planning, heating, ventilating, lighting and general equipment of churches as demonstrated by the best practice in the United States (1915)
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Baker, James McFarlan · New York, The American architect · leaf 102
o allow a fifteen-light eastwindow to be built, which extended acrossthe entire width of the choir. This win-dow being raised on the walls of the am-bulatory naturally followed the polygonalplan though somewhat flattened, and is ofmore than usual interest and beauty. We have another example in all… … VIEW SHOWING DEFECT IN ORDINARY APSE. THE CENTRAL WINDOW LOOKS LOWER THAN THOSE ON EITHER SIDE visible above the parapet. The plan isof great interest, for in earlier times thechapels radiated from the apse—as in Fig.4—and were built outside the ambula-tory; here, however, the five radiatingchapels…
Church architecture · Church decoration and ornament
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