A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 233
Flying Buttress : Hartlepool Church, Durham, c. 1250, … PLYING BUTTRESS: STRASBURG CATHEDRAL: NORTH SIDE OF XAVE.The iwrfected system, with heavy buttress piers. 401 402 J BUTTRESS PIER buttress is a straight bar or band of stonecarried by a half arch or siniihir arcuated struc-ture ; but this bar of stone may act as a merestrut transmitting the thrust…
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