A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 236
Buttress: Fig. :i. … Buttress: Fig. l. any builder to build buttressesoutside of the walls. The very essence of skil-ful planning was to so combine the di\-idingwalls or partition walls as to provide sufficiently397 by their meansfor resistance tosuch thrust. Acurious instanceof the survivalof this schemeis seen in…
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