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 492
cular 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… … Ilx,. 135. — St. Georges de Bocherville. Facade SEXPARTITE VAULTS transverse rib, which thereby acquires a structural function, andinstead of supporting merely a loaded vertical wall, supportsits portion of the vault. As a result, the vault surfaces becomemuch more twisted and complex; the ridges…
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