 The modern Cross is divided into four separate stages. The lower, composed of the open groined space, is square in plan, the groining ribs dying on to a central octagonal column, which they connect with the four angular buttresses, and also immediately...  Notes on the Old Crosses of Gloucestershire - Seite 10von Charles Pooley - 1868 - 76 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Bristol and West of England architectural society - 1846 - 226 Seiten
...canopies, &c., is conveyed laterally on to the ground by means of flying buttresses (attaching the outer to the inner vertical buttresses), cannot be too much...architectural construction has been well attended to—of ornamenting construction—for it is by these buttresses that the beautiful outline is produced.... | |
 | Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1865 - 300 Seiten
...feature has been discarded, and the pyramidal lines made at once to spring from the upper canopied. "The modern Cross is divided into four separate stages....buttresses that the beautiful outline is produced." Chaste and elegant as this building undoubtedly is, developing in its fine proportions an architectural... | |
 | Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1865 - 302 Seiten
...: — Above the sitting figures, in the Old Cross, is a tier or frieze of boys bearing shields, of the taste of Charles's reign. This looks crowded and...buttresses that the beautiful outline is produced." Chaste and elegant as this building undoubtedly is, developing in its fine proportions an architectural... | |
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