Papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects (1853)
Royal Institute of British Architects · London, Royal Institute of British Architects · leaf 47
man vault. They made the diagonal arches semi-circular, as well as the wall and transverse arches, and thus found themselves able to cover any space, but with a vault domical in section. At Yezelay, built about 1150, we find this system in perfection. Every pier supports a transverse arch, and the… … owing to the smallness of the materials, the transverse arches are of slight thickness, the pointing is scarcely visible in the earliest pointed arches, while in Burgundy, where thick arches of large stones are used, it is much more marked, as in the narthex of the church at Yezelay, where all the…
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