A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 550
f Bel-gium are notable; they are wholly decorative,■nitiiout attempt to deceive the spectator, as theboarding is distinctly marked and the construc-tion is obviously inadequate to a masonry vault.The famous Octagon of the cathedral of Ely is,on the contrary, a wooden imitation apparentlyintended to… … Fig. 4. Vaults may be classified thus : —As to form. Simple and Compound or Inter-secting ; rf —As to constniction, Solid and Ribbed.
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