Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 114
system em-ployed at Bellefontaine is thoroughly Lombard; two squarebays in the aisles equal one square compartment in the nave.At Airaines the rib vaults of the nave are still square, but sincethe aisle compartments are as long as those of the nave, they arenecessarily very oblong. The builders… … VAULTED NAVES to construct a rib vault over a space so excessively long in pro-portion to its width, and consequently employed groin vaultsin these aisles. However, at Bury, where precisely this sameproblem existed, the rib-vaulted nave being divided into squarecompartments, and the aisle…
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