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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 338

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itAvhere absolutely necessary. Instead, therefore, of building up asolid buttress of brick and rubble pierced at its base Avith an arch,let us, as in Pig. 47, crect tAvo columns of stone A A and an ex-terior buttress B. Instead of vaulting each bay of the aisle Avitha round arch, perpendicular to… … 18 274 DISCOURSES OX AECHITECTURE. | c^oss-^ault in tlie nave. Tlien, while the iiave wall is set astridethe double coIluihis of each main pier, the outer projection of thedouble capital at A will serve to support the springing of the pointedarcli A D, across the aisle, while the inner projection…

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