A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 78
this form is vciynnus\ial, probably Ijccause neaidy the same curvecan be reached by comliinations of circular curveswith tliree or five centres, antl because such acurve is much easier to construct and to trans-fer. (2) A three-centred or five-centred arch,of which the Basket Handle arch is the… … DiscH.\RGixG Arch over a Flat .^rch, forminc. I.I.VTKL. nearly parallel to tiu intrados, therein diftbringfrom an arcli whose voussoirs are cut with hori-zontal returns so as to pass into the masonryof tlie w.all. The cxtradosed arch has thena well-marked archivolt. Flat Arch. (Jne having a…
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