A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 563
e generally known asGroined Vaults, tlie groin being the salientangle made by two intersecting surfaces ; or asCloistered Vaults. There are numerous varie-949 Fig. so as to become distinct arches, as14. (b) Domical vaults. In the.se the centre orapex is raised above the level of the crown of9.j0… … the plan. It« curve is ellii)tical if the compos-ing vaults are conical; otherwise it is indefin-able (Figs. 15, 16, 17). (c) The so-called cloistered arch, or squaredome (Fig. 18), is composed of four parts of
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