A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 561
also JUS continuous flying buttresses resisting theoutward thrust of the nave vaults. They areconimon in soutlieasteru France, in the eleventhand twclftii centuries. Fitrure- 5 shows a rampant vault. Figure 6 is a soffit plan of what is know^l asa skew arch, often used for bridges but rare… … Fig. 39 (Plan). oblique to the axis. The cross section is semi-circular or seraielliptical. The joints arewarped surfaces, usually, and run spirally. An annular vault (Fig. 7) is a barrel vaultwith a curved axis. Its intrados is a portion ofthe surface of a cylindrical ring. An annularvault may…
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