Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 199
and began to crack and set-tle ; so that in the greatante - chapel, built thirtyyears later, the side-aisleswere made in two stories,the better to resist thethrust, and the groinedvaults themselves wereconstructed of pointed sec-tion. These seem to be theearliest pointed groinedvaults in France. It… … FIG. 97.—SECTION OF NOTRE DAME DU PORT,CLERMONT. EARLY MEDL^VAL ARCHITECTURE. 167 the problem of satisfactorily vaulting an oblong space witha groined vault was not solved until the following century.ONE-AISLED CHURCHES. In the Franco-Byzantine churchesalready described (p. 164) this difficulty of…
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