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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 568

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Fio. 80 (Plan)963 Fio. 83.064 VAULT each side are met at the centre, not by tlieirother lialves, but by an intermediate rili. 3. Quinquepartite. (a) For covering a pentagonal space. Twoforms are shown in Fis- •>, and also one cover-ing a semicircle, and one a trapezoid. … Fio. 84 (Plan). (b) Covering a rectangle (Fig. 58). It iscomposed of three quarters of a quadripartitevault and one quarter of a sexpartite. 4. Sexpartite. Figure 59 sliows plans ofvaults with six cells, and Figs. 60, 61, show theform known as sexpartite, or hexapartite, foundin late Romanesque and…

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