Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning . by giving it more sub-stance, and cutting away the angles will bemore commodious for the turning any kindof goods round the corner; this may thereforebe looked upon as a very considerable improve-ment in the vaultings of cellars of convenience is not the only improvementwhich this construction admits of, but theangles of the groin are strengthened by carry-ing the band round the diagonals of equal ., breadth 250 BRICKLAYING. bre
Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning . by giving it more sub-stance, and cutting away the angles will bemore commodious for the turning any kindof goods round the corner; this may thereforebe looked upon as a very considerable improve-ment in the vaultings of cellars of convenience is not the only improvementwhich this construction admits of, but theangles of the groin are strengthened by carry-ing the band round the diagonals of equal ., breadth 250 BRICKLAYING. breadth, which affords better bond to the bricks,which are usually so much cut away, that in-stead of giving support, are themselves support-ed by the adjacent filling-in arches. Fig. 5 the centering for an hexagonal GothicGroin, such as are frequently seen in Chapterhouses. Fig. 6 the Piers of an hexagonal Groin, andthe angles obtunded according to the plan of This construction is purely Gothic, thespringers would cover the obtunded parts of thegroined angles, and columnar mouldings, thoseof the piers. PLATE VII. ^!:yOy?^^^c^Az J/ale F,\^.2.
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