Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 494
perpendicular wall ofmasonry reaching up to the surface of the vault. The second type of sexpartite vault, which was used in theAbbaye-aux-Hommes (111. 129), and which is also found atCreully and Petit-Quevilly, employs precisely the same struc-ture of ribs. But the vault surface is warped to the… … III. 13.>. — St. (Jcorges de IWluTville. JAi<,;ule SEXPAirriTE \AULTS transverse rib, which therein- aeqiiires a structural function, andinstead of supporting merely a loaded vertical wail, supportsits portion of the vault. As a result, the vault surfaces becomemuch more twisted and complex;…
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