design of the nave vault twisted, and with its diagonals omittedto get It into narrower bays than those for which it was originallydesigned. The double wall-arcade of the aisles would be the resultof adding a second set of arches in front of the original ones, in orderto double the thickness ot the… … CHAPTER XAThe French Tkaxsitiox PETERBOROUGH, thoug-h late in the style, is acharacteristically Norman building, and shows us howNorman was essentially a wooden-roofed round-archedstyle, complete in itself; and if it had not been influencedfrom outside, it would possibly never have aspired to…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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