Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Félix, Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907 · Boston, J. R. Osgood · leaf 111
tone.These arches are connected by cross-beams which render themrigid, and on which rest the planks forming the vault; thediagonal and wall ribs rest on a small corbel, while the trans-verse ribs spring from a slender column, the base of which restson a tie-beam placed above the arches of the side… … Fig. 62. — Ground-plan of the Wester-Kerk at Amsterdam. (Scale, .039 inch to the yard.) nal supports and buttresses, rendered necessary by the nature ofthe soil. The shaft of the columns is surmounted merely by aheading without sculptured capitals, the mouldings are meagre,the proportion of the…
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