ltsare quite simple on plan, but become distorted in perspec-tive; some few, like that over the monument of ArchbishopStratford at Canterbury, are distorted on plan but quitesymmetrical in execution. The later lierne vaults, with their ribs symmetrically ar-ranged at the springing- and the same… … THE CHOIR VAULT OF TEWKESBURY four centred curves for the ribs simplified matters greatly bymaking it possible for them all to be of similar curvatureand yet all to rise to the same height. A perfectly true coneor trumpet shape was thus obtained, generated by the revo-lution of the curve round a…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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