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Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)

Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 228

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ree of its sides into two, and on the other into three arches. This crypt is a work in which the architect would appear to have revelled in self-sought perplexities, and to have solved them, one after another, with singular success. The portion of the crypt which represents the choir overhead is… … Fig. 374- — Glasgow Cathedral. Plan of vaulting of the Crypt under the Choir. would have been more natural than to have placed an intermediate row of columns down the centre, dividing the whole into two ordinary ranges of vaulting. But

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