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" There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses from the choir ; but here the crosses are separated from the choir by no such partition, and converge together in one keystone, which is placed in the middle of the great vault which rests on the four... "
A critical dissertation on professor Willis's 'Architectural history of ... - Page 21
by Charles Sandys - 1846 - 62 pages
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An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture

John Henry Parker - Architecture, Gothic - 1849 - 254 pages
...innumerable ones. There in the circuit around the choir the vaults were plain, but here they are arch-ribbed and have key-stones. There a wall set upon pillars...placed in the middle of the great vault, which rests upon the four principal pillars. There, there was a ceiling of wood decorated with excellent painting,...
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An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture

John Henry Parker - Architectural, Medieval - 1861 - 314 pages
...ones. There in the circuit around the choir the vaults ' were plain, but here they are arch-ribbed, and have key-stones. ' There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses [transepts] from ' the choir, but here the crosses are separated from the choir by no ' such partition,...
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An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the ...

Thomas Rickman - 1862 - 586 pages
...innumerable ones. There in the circuit around the choir the vaults were plain, but here they are arch-ribbed, and have key-stones. There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses [transepts] from the choir, but here the crosses are separated from the choir by no such partition,...
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An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture

John Henry Parker - Architecture, Gothic - 1867 - 306 pages
...are arch-ribbed, and have key-stones. There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses [transepts] from the choir, but here the crosses are separated...placed in the middle of the great vault, which rests upon the four principal pillars. There, there was a ceiling of wood decorated with excellent painting,...
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An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture

John Henry Parker - Architecture, Gothic - 1867 - 308 pages
...the junction of old and new work. THE EARLY NORMAN STYLE. were plain, but here they are arch-ribbed, and have key-stones. There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses [transepts] from the choir, but here the crosses are separated from the choir by no such partition,...
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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture [by J.H. Parker].

John Henry Parker - 1881 - 414 pages
...crosses are separated from 30. Fart of Areade, Canterbury. Shewing the junction of the old and new work. the choir by no such partition, and converge together...placed in the middle of the great vault, which rests upon the four principal pillars. There, there was a ceiling of wood decorated with excellent painting,...
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An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the ...

Thomas Rickman - Architecture - 1881 - 450 pages
...innumerable ones. There in the circuit around the choir the vaults were plain, but here they are arch-ribbed, and have key-stones. There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses [transepts] from the choir, but here the crosses are separated from the choir by no such partition,...
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History of Architectural Theory

Hanno-Walter Kruft - Architecture - 1994 - 802 pages
...new], there is no division and the arms of the transept seem to meet the choir as one, in the keystone in the middle of the great vault, which rests on the four main piers..." Whereas in Suger's accoums there emerges no clear dividing line between the person commissioning...
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