A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 554
Fig. 37 (Plan). VAULT A barrel vault usually covers a rectangularspace, but sometimes a triangular, or trape-zoidal. Its axis anil ridge are commonly hori-zontal, but sometimes inclined, as when it coversor Cannes a stair. Figure 4 shows the use ofhalf barrel vaults, over aisles, or triforia,… … Fig. 38 (PL.iN). also as continuous flying buttresses resisting theoutward thrust of the nave vaults. They arecommon in southeastern France, in the eleventhand twelfth centuries. Figure 5 shows a rampant vault. Figure 6 is a soffit plan of what is known asa skew arch, often used for bridges but…
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