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Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 170

An illustration from Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy, 1915, leaf 170
oir solid and open screens where passing in front of theNorman arches of triforium and arcade. Triforium andclerestory had often been combined before, at Selby andelsewhere, but the arcade had nowhere been united tothem in this manner. The result is quite successful: youignore the stumpy… … Fig. 165. The eastend comparatively slender, and the vaulting which springsfrom them is sustained without any flying buttresses bysimple buttresses of such moderate projection that roomis found for them on the massive wall of the Normantriforium arcade (Fig. 165). Not less audacious was the…

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