sinceat that point the ribshave already begun toseparate, it would beimpossible to find roomfor them all, and laterbuilders, feeling thecapital to be a falsepiece of construction,omitted it altogether,as at St. ho. The tasde charge appears inEngland at Glastonburyat the end of the twelfthcentury,… … DISSECTION OF THE TAS DE CHARGEFrom \iollet-le-Duc. 102 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE On p. loi is shown the spring-ing of a vault in perspec-tive : the blocks A and b with horizontal beds form the tas de charge, c—the first with a radiating joint—theskew-back, and above, D is the transverse arch, d the…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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