A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 234
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… … Flying Buttkess: Chuech of S. Kemy ax Reims (JIaune), France, Dia^ram of arraiifcoment <»f double-aisled church with two flyiiif, buttress systems. the flying buttress may be a simple brace or anactive inwaril pressure. (See the analysis nfthe whole system in the article Buttress.) (Cut, cols.…
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