A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 569
re groin ribs, and there are sixteen cells. (e) Figure 71, Welsh vaulting. (./) Figure 72, groin ribs not meeting at thecentre, but terminating at the angles of an octa-gon— York cathedral. (g) Figures 73, 74, eight semicircular trans-verse, or rather groin ribs. The central octa-gon is not… … Fio. 90 (Plan). (a) Star vaulting (Fig.s. 77, 78, 79). (h) Panel vaulting is the name given to thisform in England (Fig. 80). 10. Vaidts whose rib.s, exce])t at ri<lg(s, arcall arcs of the same circle, differing only inlengtii, and all projjcrly groin ribs. Suchvaults are necessarily domical.…
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