Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 328
have come intothe Amiens vault system—which, indeed,in its first conception had already ad-vanced into some English likeness—thosepeculiar features of the English develop-ment (fig. 239), the branch andlierneor midrib. Now, too, mixing with thedouble-lighted evolution of the Frenchtraceried… … 239- AMIENS. CROSSING VAULT,I 270. From the thirteenth century transeptchapels of the Abbaye aux Dames, (aen ;the same pecuharity being found at Norrey,Coutances, and .St. Pol de Leon. In tin-ehevets tlie rVench double cylinder is usedfur the ])ier. See pier sections pp. loS, 109. ■ As in its…
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