Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 484
the clearstory wall to form a buttress. Such a construc-tion seems to prove that the Norman builders, at least in thesecond half of the XI century, far from considering the engagedshaft as a structural feature to be used in connection with thevault, rather regarded it as a purely decorative element… … 111. 133. — Abbayo-aiix-Honimes of Caen. Facade NORMAN VAULTS used as fancy suggested; — quite in the spirit that the samefeature is used on the facade of S. Michele of Pavia. Groin vaults were employed in the aisles and triforium ofJumieges (111. 124), in the aisles of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes(III.…
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