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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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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 … Fan Vaultino; Construction of Choir Roof, S. Georges Chapel, WindsorCasti.e. The Midi>i.e Section is not ribbed at all but vaulted in SolidBlocks. The Haunches are kept in Place by filling of Rough Masonry. which springs a secondary system of fan vault-ing. These drops arc really a part of a…

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