A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 232
s thickness. Itwill be seen that in thisinstance a combinationof the classical and medi-aval ,systems has arisennaturally from the con-ditions i)f tlie plan. For a full discussionof buttress and buttress-ing see treatises on(iuthic Architecture. — R. S. Flying Buttress, Astructure tjf mascjiiry… … Flying Buttress : Hartlepool Church, Durham, c. 1250,
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