Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 401
ovided with stone suitable forvaulted constructions, long retained the horizontal ceilings of wood.But even where there was no lack of the requisite materials, the navewas occasionally covered with a horizontal ceiling, and, moreover, ata comparatively late period, as, for instance, in the Abbey… … Fig. 220.—System of the AbbeyChurch of Jumieges. Fig. 221.—System of theAbbey Church of Mont-Saint-Michel. Fig. 222.—System of theChurch of St. Georgesat Boscherville. vaulted constructions were successfully employed before the endof the eleventh century, an independent treatment of the cross-vault…
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