Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 114
ver an oblong plan, a double ad-vantage is secured. Lateral win-dows can be carried up to the fullheight of the vaulting instead ofbeing stopped below its springing;and the weight and thrust of thevaulting are concentrated upon anumber of isolated points insteadof being exerted along the… … FIG. 47.—GROINED VAULT. g, g. Groins. 82 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. thrust of the vault. This appears clearly in the plan of theBasilica of Constantine (Fig. 58). The dome was in almost all Roman examples supportedon a circular wall built up from the ground, as in the Pan-theon (Fig. 54). The…
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