A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 231
THE H.A^LLs. Palace at Chaqqa, Syrl\. See Fig. 2, partial section, showing transverse arches, Jl; andFig. 8, partial end wall at A. and those which are walls dividing rooms, com-partments, or bays of the interior. Thus, in abuilding like the Basilica of Maxentius or thegreat hall of the Baths of… … Buttress: Fn.i. :.. any builder to build buttressesoutside of tlie walls. The very essence of skil-ful planning was to so combine the dividingwalls or partition walls as to provide sufficiently397 peculiar plan, evidently combined with the pur-pose above stated. The numerous buttressesof Aya…
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