A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 238
nd medi-:eval .systems has arisennaturally from the con-dition.s of the plan. For a full discussionof liuttress and buttress-ing see treatises onGothic Architecture. — R. S. Flying Buttress. Astructure of masonry bymeans of which thethrust of a vault is takenup or neutralized with-out the immediate… … JLYING BUTTRESS: STRASBUKG CATHEDRAL; NORTH SIDE OF NAVE.The perfected system, with heavy buttress piers. 401 102 BUTTRESS PIER buttress is a straight bar cir band of stimecarried by a half arch or similar arcuated struc-ture ; but this bar of stone may act as a merestrut transmitting the thrust of…
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