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Specifications for practical architecture; a guide to the architect, engineer, surveyor, and builder, with an essay on the structure and science of modern buildings (1886)

Rogers, Frederick, Bartholomew, Alfred, 1801-1845 · London, C. Lockwood and co. · leaf 304

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crown of the vaulting.The whole of the vaulting is to be completely groutedin a solid manner with liquid mortar, and, when thecentering is removed, the whole of the vaulting is tobe neatly pointed quite fairly and evenly. (In vaultings the author hasadopted with good success themethod shown in… … 262 SPECIFICATIONS. creased, the span of the arch is diminished, and thepart of the wall above the arch does not hang ready toslide from off the back of the arch; this corbeledspringing-work may be set in cement, or it may bemade of stone). Dry-areas. To construct round the building the dry-areas…

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