A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 559
quadripartite vaults, over the aislesof polygonal apses, as in Fig. 3.5. V. Polygonal Vaults. These are mostly956 VAULT octagonal on the plan, and are of the natureof the cupohi. VI. Fancy Tracery VaiiJliiig. This is avariety of solid vaulting, although it was devel-oped from the ribbed vaulting of… … Fig. G5. square space may be partly covered by twohalves of the pyramidoid inverted and sotopposite to each other. The bases are octag-onal. The halves may meet at points, Fig.36, leaving a star-sha|jed ridge space uncovered;or by sides, Fig. 37, leaving a .square. If thenon-cardinal sides of tlie…
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