Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 390
profile, their bases meeting at the top,leaving lozenge-shaped voids which were filled up byvarious decorative devices. The ribs, no longer struc-tural, were simply carved in relief on the conoids, andthe whole vault was covered with a patterning of thesefine decorative ribs and adorned with… … Fig. 374 A. Opex-Timber Ceiling, Laveniiam Church, Suffolk. English vaulting is of the highest order, and nothingequal to these vaults is found in any other school ofGothic design (Figure 30 fo). No less remarkable are the superb oaken ceilingsborne on huge arched trusses, of which the highest…
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