An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 176
example of a com-pound flying buttress at West-minster Abbey, which supportsthe vaults of the choir, the tri-forium, and the aisles, and car-ries the thrust of the wholeover the cloister to the ground.Eut they did not become com-mon until after this period.There is a marked differencebetween the… … 115. Hartlepool, Durham,c. 1220. The Coebel - Tables some-times consist, as in the earlierperiod, merely of blocks sup. ^Sfn^ttes^ttff& porting a straight, projecting terminated by coping. course of stone which carries the front of the parapet(116); but more commonly, especially as the…
Architecture, Gothic
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