A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 205
tion fornnng in some way the angle betweentwo simple vaults. Tlie term hiis no accuratesignificance, and is applied erroneously to the325 GSOOVB diagonal rib of a ribbed vault, and also to thewliole of a groined vault taken togctiier. Theonly sense in which it can be rightly used seemsto be in the… … tw.1 Groin: Vaults with Groins; Dorsetshike, c. 1110. GROINING. Properly, the meeting ofsimple vaidts, such as barrel vaults, at an angleso as to form a more elaborate structure. (SeeGroin Vault, under Vault.) By extension, thebuilding of groined vaults generally. Underpitch Groining. The groining…
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