A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 71
ch heavier tlian strength alone required.The idea of a solid buttress projecting severalfeet beyond the wall was too bold for the timidworkmen of that time; they used, indeed, aseparately combined piece of masonry at thepoint where the vaults pushed horizontally inthe most formidable way, and this… … FRANCE low, could be vaulted without much risk, andthat with square groineil vaults very similar toKoman work in all except the details of con-struction ; but the nave could hardly be vaultedsuccessfully in any such way, and the history ofthose centuries is in great measure a recor(of how one high…
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