A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 226
ing internally tlie cticct of a series ofarches; ar, wlieu the arched meuibers wereceiled, of a (•radle vault. ROOF kind are tlie metal-covered routs of Europe andAmerica in which the slope is often half an inchto a foot or one in twenty-four. The plates ofmetal in these cases must be soldered… … Roof; with Collar Beams and Braces (Knke Kaftei:sj, i:;iii Ce.ntluv; Hall of Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. Curb Roof. One in which the slope is brokenon two (ir tour sides ; so called because a hori-zontal curb is built at the plane where the slopechanges (see Curb, D; Gambrel Roof; FrenchRoof;…
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