An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1900)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London : J. Parker · leaf 178
f a com-pound flying buttress at West-minster Abbey, which supportsthe vaults of the choir, the tri-forium, and the aisles, and car-ries the thrust of the wholeover the cloister to the ground.But they did not become com-mon until after this period.There is a marked differencebetween the flying… … 115. Hartlepool, Durham,c. 1220. Fl vinsr buttress, the short pin-nacle and the set-off bothterminated by coping. The Corbel - Tables some-times consist, as in the earlierperiod, merely of blocks sup-porting a straight, projectingcourse of stone which carries the front of the parapet(116); but more…
Architecture, Gothic
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