Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 354
f the French. In French vaulting the ashlar-beds of the panel are 14—2 212 EARLY ENGLISH [CH. XII Difference laid in courses parallel to the ridge-lines; that is to say,in the longitudinal vault they are parallel to the axis ofthe church, and perpendicular to the transverse arch, andin the cross… … Fig. 90. the diagonal rib (Fig. 90). In English vaulting, on thecontrary, the beds of the ashlaring in the panels are laidsquare with a line more or less nearly bisecting thepanel, and they therefore meet at an obtuse angle againstthe diagonal rib (Fig. 91). In setting out a Frenchvault the…
Architecture, Gothic
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