A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 559
Fig. 37 (Plan).946 VAULT A barrel vault usually covers a rectangula-space, but sometimes a triangular, or trajje-zoidal. Its axis and ridge are commonly hori-zontal, but sometimes inclined, as when it coversor carries a stair. Figure i shows the use ofhalf barrel vaults, over aisles, or triforia,… … Fig. 38 (Plan). also as continuous flying buttresses resisting theoutward thrust of tiie nave vaults. They arecommon in southeastern France, in the eleventhand twelfth centuries. Figure 5 shows a rampant vault. Figure 6 is a soffit plan of what is known asa skew arch, often used for bridges but…
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