inst the wall, was treated as a discharging arch whichrendered unnecessary any wall below it. But unless weightedin some way this wall arch might be pushed out of thevertical at the crown by the pressure of the vaulting panel,each course of which, in a French vault, formed a flat archbetw^een the… … [C. H. ;r FLYING BITTRESSES, AMIENS: NAVE AND CHOIR H 98 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE Bui-undy, with their hirge stones, this was not needed butin the lie do 1-rance, the Heauvaisis, and Picardy, wherematerials are small, we tind these i,^ables from about 1240.The annexed ii^-ure shows the arrani^ement at^…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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