The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 349
, but practical-ly it was transmitted to twopoints, above and below thew£vf i-^^7* theoretical one. Wherefore two flying buttresses were em-ployed, one above the other.These were sometimes con-nected by radial columns, as in Chartres (Fig. 129),or by small arcades, as in Amiens (Fig. 130), to… … Fig. 129.—Buttress in thecathedral of Chartres. USES OF GOTHIC ORNAMENT. 327 things of early Gothic had their duties to perform :the graceful groin to carry the roof; the pointed archto gain the height;the flying buttressto prop the latter,earn the water, andaid, but not infringeupon the light;…
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