running up cin the naveside, it was difficult to know what to do with that of theminor pier, since there was no rib for it to carry. It was,therefore, made to carry a rib which met the others at theircrossing, but itself did no work, being connected with the VAULTING 71 vault merely by means ot a… … [G. H. TV. AMBILATORV, MORIEXVAL of the Abbaye aux Hommes, Laon (p. 115), Paris, Bourges,and Sens (p. 59), was improved on by making- this rib agenuine vaulting rib supporting a vaulting panel; and sincethe vault is thus divided into six cells, these are called ^ex^^partite vaults. A large number…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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