A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 239
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… … Flying Buttress: Church of S. Kemy at Reims (Maknk), France.DiafrraiM of arrangement of double-aisled church with two flyinf? buttress systems. the flying buttress may be a simple brace or anai-tive inwaril jiressure. (See the analysis ofthe whole system in tlie article Buttress.) (Cut,cols. 40.),…
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