A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 571
e groin ribs, and there are sbcteeu cells. (e) Figure 71, Welsh vaulting. (/) Figure 72, groin ribs not meeting at thecentre, but terminating at the angles of an octa-gon — York cathedral. (;/) Figures 73, 74, eight semicircular trans-verse, or rather groin riljs. The central octa-gon is not… … Fig. 90 (Fl.\n). (n) Star vaulting (Figs. 77, 78, 79). (/() Panel vaulting is the name given to thisform in England (Fig. 80). 10. Vaults whose ribs, except at ridges, areall arcs of the same circle, differing only inleiigtii, and all jirojierly groin ribs. Suchvaults are neces.sarily domical.…
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