Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 69
1 plication longitudinal ridge rib runs continuously from end to of ribsend of the nave ; but in French work the ridge ribsgenerally stop short both at B and C. This short ribthey call a lierne^. In France, however, this multi-plication of ribs is unusual in the 13th and 14th centuries,during which… … Fig. 136. of the courses rather suggests it (Fig. 91, vol. i. p. 213). SuggestedThe English plan being to lay the courses more or less Englishsquare with a line bisecting the panel, instead of parallel ^oYrsbgto the ridge in the French way, a fresh direction wasgiven to the ashlar courses on each…
Architecture, Gothic
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