e aisle roof, and the clerestory,and this system influences English architecture to the end.Their practical sense appears also in the passages whichthey were the first to contrive in the thickness of the wall,especially along the clerestory, so as to give ready accessto the windows and roof. From… … NORMAN ARCH ORDERS 200 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE In Norman times, as in all those which had gone before,it was a much more difficult thing to saw a tree into planksthan to cut and dress stone. Economy in centrings, ortemporary wooden supports for arches, was therefore animportant object. In broad arches,…
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