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abbey church abutment aisle vaults AMBULATORY VAULTS Anjou appearance apse apse vault apsidal arch Auvergne beneath Bourgogne builders Byzantine Caen Cath cathedral Fig centering chevet chevet vault choir Choisy church of Saint clerestory construction cross-ribbed vault crown curve decorative developed employed Enlart examples exterior fact four-part vault France Gothic architecture Gothic period Gothic Vaults groined vaults half dome Illustrated in Bond important intersection keystone lantern Lasteyrie lierne vaults liernes Lombard Lombard and Gothic masonry Mediaeval Church Architecture nave nave vaults Normandy number of churches original outer wall outward thrust panels pendentives Perigord piers Plate pointed Poitou Porter Provence radiating chapels ribbed vaulting ridge rib Rivoira Saint Etienne Saint Remi Saône-et-Loire semicircular severies side aisles similar six-part vault square bays square nave bays structural thirteenth century tierceron vaulting tiercerons transept transverse arches trapezoidal triforium Trinité tunnel vaults wall rib window cells wooden roof
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Page 86 - In English vaulting, intermediate ribs, or tiercerons, were added between the transverse and diagonal ribs. Soon after, a further element was introduced, in the form of liernes, short connecting ribs between tiercerons. Clarence Ward accounts for them in this manner, "tiercerons are not essential members of the vaulting system, and perhaps they were better omitted altogether, but that their usage can be vindicated from an aesthetic standpoint is proved by such vaults as those at Exeter . . . [liernes]...
Page 186 - L'architecture religieuse dans l'ancien diocese de Soissons au XI= et au XII= siecle, t.
Page 1 - Romanesque period, or roughly speaking, from the beginning of the eleventh to the middle of the twelfth century, three chief forms of vaulting were employed over the naves and aisles of church edifices.
Page 186 - Development and Character of Gothic Architecture Mediaeval 'Church Architecture of England Character of Renaissance Architecture Die Baukunst des Mittelalters in Italien Specimens of Mediaval Architecture.