A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 559
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… … Fig. .-iit (Plan). ol>li(|ue to the axis. The cross section is semi-circular or scmielliiitical. The joints arcwarjjcd surfaces, usually, and run spirally. An annular vault (Fig. 7) is a barrel vaultwith a curved axis. Its intradns is ,i portion ofthe surface of a cylindrical ring. An…
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