ereby givento the pier and arch, especially after moulded bands had hadto be introduced into the former, to take the short lengthsof the Purbeck shafts. During the latter part of the thirteenth century, when thevaulting ribs of a French church begin to come down tothe ground, they also begin to… … HA B ARCH MOILDINGS, S. OlEN THE COLU.MX, ARCH, AND MOULDINGS 123 simply square arches, unmoulded, as in Gloucester cryptor later with a roll on each an-le. But it soon becameevident that what was required in a vaultin- rib was notbreadth but depth, which was obtained bv slii^htlv narrow-mo- the nb…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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