A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 231
n thanin this inability to seehow naturally the but-tresses could be increasedindividually in their pro-jection from the wall soas to resist even the greatthrust of the transversearches by means of wliichthe builders were trjingto vault theii- aisles andtlieir naves in thosechurches built… … BUTTRESS CJtareiite, and many more coiilil lie named; thus, the great nave of the abbey ch\ireh atV^zelay has a sys-tem of flying but-tresses and largebuttress piers wliiehwere not added im-til the nave vaulthad already settled])ereeptibly. Withthe earliest appear-ance of the ribbedvault, funning…
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