, with a final demonstration of how the mostbeautiful features in a French cathedral are the results ofthe severest reasonin^;^. When the walls were turned roundin slices at right ang-les to the building-, the wall arch, which/Was at first simply the arched end of the vaulting- butting … TROVES CATHEDRAL, 124O-1250 Note tracery, buttresses, pinnacles, water drainage, gar-goyles, etc. Also battlemented cornice, rare in France,fourteenth century. against the wall, was treated as a discharging arch whichrendered unnecessary any wall below it. But unless weightedin some way this wall…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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