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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 388

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ns of the Em])ire, liowever, theinterior seemed of equal importance with the650 STONE CUTTING exterior, and the arcli is in continual use, bothsingly, as in a wall, and as extended to tlievaidt over a large ajiartnicnt. Figure 6 showsone of the few Hoinau vaidts wliich, out ofSyria, are known to… … Mt.iAL 1,1 ITIXG, Fig. S: Frexch Gothic Work okPeriod; Church of S. Euskee, Auxerre: 13th C Toof, in which the thicker bands of stone form-ing parallel arches have served no purposeexcept to enable the planner of the work to sitn-plify it by giving his workmen one arch or ringof voussoirs at a…

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