Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 92
found, andthis scheme was in consequence before long abandoned. More promising was the idea of stilting the transverse ribs(111. 162) and by this means bringing their crowns to the desiredlevel, — a scheme which was tried at Morienval (c. 1122) andat St. Etienne of Beauvais (c. 1130). The idea was… … 111. 162. — St. Etienne of Beauvais. Interior INCREASED USE OF THE POINTED ARCH the stilted wall rib became in the end one of the essential char-acteristics of the developed Gothic vault. A strange expedient was that adopted at Bury (c. 1125)and St. Leu dEsserent (c. 1150), where the transverse rib…
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