Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 119
clustered piers of about 11 feet 6 inches dia-meter (a large portion of which runs up to the vaulting),and coupled columns of nearly three feet diametereach. The triforium is somewhat too small—the only 11858. 96 LECTURES ON [LECTURE III. fault in the composition—and the clerestory windowshave,… … Fig. 40.—Cathedral of Sens. View of Choir Aisles. proved by evidence I need not here go into, wereround-arched, and came low in the clerestory wall,thus diminishing the height of the windows—a defectwhich led to their reconstruction. Not only are the
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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