doubled, as in the nave ofAmiens (p. 97), just as in shoring up a bulg^ing wall the tim-ber shore has to butt against a vertical plate. Then the twoarches were combined into one sloping girder by an arcadebetween them as at Chartres (p. 94) and the choir of Amiens.The upper slope of the buttress… … [G. H. If.CSISORS CATHEDRAL, FIFTEENTH-CENTLRY VAULTINGr^Ote bases of columns and pendants in vault. 94 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE combined in an arrangement as ingenious as it is beautiful.It is a good instance of the way in which every constructivefeature of Gothic architecture is made into an element…
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