An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1861)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J.H. and J. Parker · leaf 61
re to erect avault over so large a space;we do not find any early vaultover a space above twenty feetwide, and few of so wide aspan. Many of our Normancathedrals still have timberroofs over the lnro-P snappy 25, Norman ClPita1 with ca™a& XUUlfa OVtJI Uie Idrge Spaces, commenced aad left… … CHANCELS SHORT. 43 timber roofs for which some parts of England are dis-tinguished are unknown in Normandy, where almostevery village church is vaulted over. Here it may be well to mention, that down to theearly Norman period the eastern limb of a cruciformchurch, or the chancel of a plain oblong…
Architecture, Gothic
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