Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 207
T. G.J. BEAUVAIS CATHEDRAL CH. VII] AMIENS AND BEAUVAIS 129 gives it its peculiar beauty. The same reason explains Beauvaisthe sexpartite vault, because the choir being over 50 feetwide from centre to centre of the columns and the lengthof the bay being now reduced to 14, a quadripartite vaultover… … Fig. 49. Fig. 49 is a plan of the choir, in which the original Plan ofand intruded piers are distinguished, as well as those choirwhich were rebuilt after the fall of the tower in the16th century. Only one of the original four piers at thecrossing remains, that at the south-east corner ; the rest…
Architecture, Gothic
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