An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1900)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London : J. Parker · leaf 226
to call a vault a roof: it would be more correctto call it a ceiling. The name of Vault is commonly applied tosubterranean chambers. DECORATED ROOFS. I8 There are a few instances of stone roofs of this styleover narrow spaces of very high pitch, supported byopen-work, as if in imitation of… … 145. Decorated Eoof, Sparsholt, Berkshire, c. 1350. posed; but it is lamentable to observe how fast theyare disappearing: that of the hall of the abbey ofGreat Malvern, the finest example that existed in thiscountiy, or probably in any other, was wantonly de-stroyed : it was a wooden ceiling, with…
Architecture, Gothic
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