Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 84
heory we find the narrowerarch or wall-rib remaining roundlong after the wider arch had be-come pointed (Fig. n). Such isthe case in nearly all the earlier ofthe French transitional churches,as at Noyon and at St. Germaindes Pres, and we see the sameat Canterbury. In most of thesebuildings the… … 62 LECTURES ON [LECTURE II. Although, however, the pointed arch was actuallyadopted from simple necessities of construction, itsadvantages in all points of view soon became apparent.In an essentially arcuated style it becomes necessarynot only to have the command of a form of arch capableof…
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