Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 197
e higher elevation of thenave as compared with the lower elevation of the sideaisles. Its practical use is perhaps best illustrated bythe view of Melrose Abbey (Fig. 97), although it ap-^pears here in a rudimentary and clumsy form. Thebuttress was frequently surmounted by a pinnacle ; al-ways, in… … Fig. 103.—Choir. Cathedral of Quimper. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 183 effects of altitude. It was, in a word, an ornament em-phasizing construction. It will, on the whole, best explain the uses of thebuttress to consider in the case of a given building(Fig. 105), what the alternative would be if the…
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