A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 309
e connected bylatticed beams or purlins. The arches are about13 feet deep near the ground. The work was let to two contractors whoadopted ditterent methods of erection. One ofthem put first in place the heavier lower halfof the rib, the foot as it was called, weighingforty-eight tons ; then the… … IRON CONSTRUCTION: CHURCH OF S. AUGUSTIN, PARIS. The iron work, iucluding vault ribs and vaulting shafts, is visible, and vaults and domes of hollow brick;the whole made ornamental with painted decoration. 513 614 IRON CONSTRUCTION able seaftbkliiig for the suiijiort of the ribs,which were handled…
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