Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 199
rincipal varieties of round-arched vaulting with two exceptions. The one is that in which the side vaults of oblong compart- ments cut the higher and main vault at a level lower than its crown. This is vulgarly known as " Welsh " groining, and though not quite pleasing in effect, it is a very… … eye, or perhaps generating them Fig. 342. Fig. 343- St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. by the motion forward of the side arch (Fig. 343). This has been done in the Sis- tine Chapel, and Mr. Smirke has, I think, done the same in our Great Exhibition Room. In a ceiling to be deco- rated with…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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