Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 246
flight over both aisles, are effective. There is a curiousdevice in roofing the radiating chapels. In the Frenchckevet the chapels had each its own roof, polygonal asat Amiens, or round as at Noyon, according as thechapel was round or polygonal. These often rose upinto pyramidal roofs (v. p. 73… … Fig. 64. from buttress to buttress, as shown in Fig. 64, by turningan arch from a—b and from c—d, with a small vaultbehind it covering the triangular recess. This enabledthe aisle to be covered by a simple lean-to roof. The glory of Coutances, however, is its three greattowers, two at the west end…
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