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The diagonal ribs, being narrower than the transverse Digitized by VjOOQIC 332 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE CHAP. ribs, have, when this profile is used, the flat portion of the soffit reduced to a fillet, as shown in the figure. Less common, though not infrequent, eariy rib profiles have a hollow in the middle of the soffit — as at F, from the choir of St. Germer; G, from St. Hildevert of Goumay; H, from the transept of Tavemy near Paris ; and I, from the choir of Laon. The diagonal ribs are usually of ...a different profile. In the oldest Romanesque vaults of the aisles of St. Etienne of Beau- vais they are rectangular with a wide bevel on each edge. In the apse of Morienval, and other contemporaneous work, they are three-quarter rounds, as at A (Fig. 179). In the apsidal aisles of St. Denis the profile is as at B, while at Senlis this form is improved by bringing the curves together in a more acute edge, and by introducing a sunk fillet, as at C. The size Fig. 179. of the single round of a diagonal of this form is larger than the rounds on the edges of the square transverse and longitudinal ribs ; and it may be questioned whether this gives good propor- tion.* However this may be, any objection that may be felt on this score to the earlier vaulting was avoided in the Cathedral of Paris by giving substantially the same profile (D, Fig.
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