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Notes on Irish architecture (1875)

Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 41

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s was perceived the builders very skilfully carried upthe building in a nearly vertical line, so as to counteract the tendency to lean, andpreserve the centre of gravity. This is the exact counterpart of what was done at Pisa,in the erection of the great Campanile. Unfortunately I did not get a… … Window in Belfry. Monasterboice. Interior.

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