An introduction to English church architecture from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London, New York, [etc] H. Milford, Oxford University Press · leaf 441
hester cathedral was vaulted, the clerestory wall was stiffened with internal flying buttresses. To flying buttresses in the triforium chamber there was one serious objection ; viz., that they provided abutment low down ; such abutment was barely adequate where the authorities were satisfied with… … D- B- St. Cross, Winchester 155 ft. high internally, could never have been constructed at all by such a humble expedient. The remedy was to build the flying buttress not beneath the aisle roof but above it, i.e., in the open air. Of our external flying buttresses the earliest are those of…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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