The Architectural magazine . nced by their feelings and manners, as it is connected with L L 2 508 Principles of Con&truclion the scenery in which it is found, and with the skies under whichit was erected; we shall be led as much to the street and thecottage as to the temple and the tower; and shall be moreinterested in buildings raised by feeling, than in those correctedby rule. We shall commence with the lower class of edifices,proceeding from the road side to the village, and from thevillage to the city; and, if we succeed in directing the attentionof a single individual more directly to th
The Architectural magazine . nced by their feelings and manners, as it is connected with L L 2 508 Principles of Con&truclion the scenery in which it is found, and with the skies under whichit was erected; we shall be led as much to the street and thecottage as to the temple and the tower; and shall be moreinterested in buildings raised by feeling, than in those correctedby rule. We shall commence with the lower class of edifices,proceeding from the road side to the village, and from thevillage to the city; and, if we succeed in directing the attentionof a single individual more directly to this most interestingdepartment of the science of architecture, we shall not havewritten in vain. Art. II. Experimental Essays on the Principles of Constructionin Arches^ Piers, Buttresses, Sfc. By William Bland, X. and last. Relative to the Architecture of Chapter-Houses. Salisbury ChapterHoiise. — Fig. 109. represents a part ofthis building, which is, in form, an octagon, and its dimensionsare as follows: —. The span from the pillar to the buttress wall is 27 ft. 6 height of the pillar is 27 ft. 6 in. The height of the shaft is24 ft. The diameter of the compound pillar is 2 ft. 6 in.; ahorizontal section of which is shown at e, the large centre pillarhaving eight small pillars surrounding it, detached, however, at1 in. distance. The diameter of the small pillars is 4 in., andthat of the large centre one is 21 in. The thickness of the wallis 2 ft. The thickness of the buttress is 4 ft. 6 in. The dimen-sions of the masonry over the groins and crown of the arches Ido not possess. Now, in 27 ft. 6 in. there are 330 in., which, divided by 6,gives 55 in. for the true balancing diameter of the pillar; but in Arches, Piers, cmd Buttresses. 509 the diameter is 30 in., therefore, nearly one half part too small,when the height and span correspond. This law applies, how-ever, to a single series of arches and pillars ; but, when onepillar is placed in the centre of many
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