An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1862)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · Oxford ; London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 211
l vaulting. We must bear inmind that before this period the bmlders of the northern churches hadnot ventured to constiuct a vault over the wide central space. Theaisles had been vaulted for moic than half a century, while the centralspace was still covered with a wooden ceiling, as at… … H.iU of the Hospital at Angers, ad. 1177—USl enonnous squaic buttresses of Anjou and Poitou, and introduced thearch buttress to carry their new vaults. HENRY IL, A.D. II54—1189. 177 As Henry II. was hereditary Count of Anjou, and frequently heldhis court at Angers, when the English nobles and…
