Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 111
English proposals for highvaults did not design them sexpartite, as at Canterbury (fig. 51) wherethey came in the fashion of the earlier vaults of Sens, as borrowingfrom the Caen Abbeys, or as Paris, Laon, and Noyon had them till theend of the twelfth century and longer. Nor, on the other hand,… … 51. CANTERBURY, QUIRE VAULT, I I 78. (width 28 ft.) in the style of that of theaisles. The first vaultings here were prob-ably those of the transept chapels, and ofthe chapter house. In the north transept chapel there areeven found hemes or ridge ribs, an English feature that became conspicuous…
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