Architecture for General Readers: a Short Treatise On the Principles And ...
Architecture for General Readers: a Short Treatise On the Principles And ...
H Heathcote Henry Heathcote Statham
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We can keep them to the same level at the crown either by making the wider arch only a segment of a circle (G, Fig. 103), or by doing what is called "stilting '* the narrower arch (H, Fig. 103), that is, making the lower portion straight, and the real arch spring from a point above the im- post, a device of constant use in Byzantine and early Romanesque architecture for making wide and narrow arches come level at the crown (see sketch) ; and a very clumsy and unsightly device it is. But the eff...ect of either expedient, Digitized by VjOOQIC ARCUATED ARCHITECTURE. in in cross-vaulting, would be to make the oblique arches of intersection twisted, as shown on plan in Fig. 102, and sketched in Fig. 105, the two differently curved vaulting surfaces not intersecting evenly. All these difficulties were unavoidable as long as nothing but the round arch was available for covering spaces of different widths. The whole of these difficulties were approximately got over in theory, and almost entirely in practice, by the use of the pointed arch.
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