A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 72
er tlian stnugth alone nnjuircd.Tiie idea of a solid buttress jjrojecting severalfeet beyond the wall was too bold for the timidworkmen of that time; they used, indetnl, aseparately coml>incd i)iecc of masonry at thepoint where the vaults pushed horizontally inthe most formidable way, and this… … FRANCE low, could be vaulted without much risk, andthat with square groined vaults very similar toRoman work in all except the details of con-struction ; but the nave could hardly be vaultedsuccessfully in any such w x}, and the history ofthose centuries is in greit meisure a recoidof how one high…
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