A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 395
ans of the Enq)ire, however, theinterior seemed of equal importance with tlieC60 STONE CUTTING exterior, and the arch is in continual use, bothsingly, as in a wall, and as extended to tlievault over a large apartment. Figure 6 showsone of tiie few Roman vaults which, out ofSyria, are known to have… … MoNt ( I TTiN(., Fi( h French Gothic Work ■Pfriud Chlr(HofS Eiskise, Auxerre: liixH Toof, in which the thicker bands of .stone form-ing jiarallel arches liave served no purpose€.\cept to enal)Ie the jilanner of the work to sini-j)lify it by giving his workmen one arch or ringof voussoirs at a time.…
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