Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Aislevaults atS. Denis Fig. 15 from V.-le-Duc. from point to point, and the irregular winding of thepanels between them was not only disguised by theregular curve of the ribs, but became of little consequence;for the panels being relieved of any structural duty, hadonly to carry themselves, and could repose securely onthe skeleton of the ribs. In Fig. 16 is shown the plan of one bay of theambulatory with its apsidal chapel at S. Denis, where CH. Ill) THE GOTHIC VAULT 45
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S« DENIS Fig. 16 adapted from V.-le-Duc 46 THE GOTHIC VAULT (ch. hi Aisle there are two aisles round the great apse of the choir,s. Denis the outer one being in fact absorbed into the chapel.I take the description of these vaults from Viollet-le-Duc,who restored the church in 18591. The circumferenceof the interior circle which defines the chapel meets theabacus of the cylindrical column at A so that the diagonalarches AC, DC, EC are equal. Having drawn thetransverse arch F and the archivolt G (which carriesthe main apse of the choir), the architect takes themiddle of the axis GF at I and draws the two diagonalsBIK, HIM and the transverse arches HB, BL. It isclear that all these arches are independent, and thearchitect may please himself in fixing their springing.But,—and here the necessary consequences of the newsystem show themselves,—had he made these archessemicircular their springing would have had to be atvarious heights if they were to come to a level at theircrown, since

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