Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 68
e the wall-rib springs from the capital of a small shaft that rises from the cornice at the springing of the main vault. The pocket of the vault being taken up straight with this shaft as high as the springing of the wall-rib is therefore left behind the main vault, which ^ For information as to… … 0, CH. Ill] THE GOTHIC VAULT 39 advances in front of it with the sweep of the diagonalrib. Consequently the group of ribs shown at theirspringing at A (Fig. 12) after rising a short way comesin front of the jamb C as shown at B, and in an elevationdrawing would hide it. As it is seen from the…
Architecture, Gothic
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