A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 232
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 thetnie coninieni-ementof Gothic architec-ture, the buttressesassumed very dif-ferent proportions,and… … BnTTRESs: Two at AngleOF Aisle ; Oxford Ca-thedral, c. 1330. or thickness measured acrossthe buttress, and, therefore,parallel to the main axis ofthe chiuch. Those of theS. Chapelle — which are sim-ple in their conditions assupporting the thrust ofvaults raised high above tliefoundation of the…
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