Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 371
ve but the rest is very eccentric (Fig. 88). The plan isreally quadripartite, but instead of the diagonals meetingin the middle of the crown they are drawn to separatepoints A and B, two superfluous ribs AC and BD are drawnfrom those points to the springing, and as the diagonalsdo not meet it is… … Fig. 88. No such whimsy diverted the architect of the nave atLincoln (Plate LXVI I) who worked with a surer hand andwith a magnificent result. It seems to have been begun byBishop Hugh of Wells 1209—1235 and finished in thetime of the great Bishop Grostete who died in 1253.The lightness of the…
Architecture, Gothic
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