hown by the twodisastrous fires at York Minster, now said to be restored, that is, prepared for athird conflagration. Many other cathedral roofs have caught fire, but sustainedhardly any damage, all supply of air from below being cut off by the fire-proofceiling. The duomo at Milan, the abbey of… … OF ARCHITECTURE. 217 came, during the Gothic period, their masters, and construc-ted many vaultings which for beauty and geometric perfec-tion have no parallel abroad. Indeed, the defect of thewinding surfaces, though carried to a great extent in theboldest foreign vaultings, seems to have been…
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