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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 571

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h are filled inl\y flagging or flat archings. A somewhat sim-ilar species of construction covers the smallchapel of the monastery at Belein, near Lisbon ;but in the Portuguese example the fans makecomjilete circuits about slender isolated pillars,meeting half vaultings from the side walls, but970… … siderable space, are connected by very flat,ribbed, domical vaultings. The elaboration ofthe vault of Henry the Sevenths Chapel isgreatly complicated by a series of drops from

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