Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . Fig- 13- he raised a thin wall for some height and then spread itout with vaulting surfaces right and left to meet those ofthe main vaults. The two pockets or cells thus formeddescribed an ellipse on the main walls, and their crownnaturally ran obliquely towards the centre of the mainvault where the various ribs met. In Fig. 13 AD andBC are the transverse arches dividing the bays, andAC and BD are the diagonals: EF is the intrudedtransverse arch, G the common point of intersection, and 42 THE GOTHIC VAULT [CH. Ill the dotted lines show the di
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . Fig- 13- he raised a thin wall for some height and then spread itout with vaulting surfaces right and left to meet those ofthe main vaults. The two pockets or cells thus formeddescribed an ellipse on the main walls, and their crownnaturally ran obliquely towards the centre of the mainvault where the various ribs met. In Fig. 13 AD andBC are the transverse arches dividing the bays, andAC and BD are the diagonals: EF is the intrudedtransverse arch, G the common point of intersection, and 42 THE GOTHIC VAULT [CH. Ill the dotted lines show the direction of the crowns of the Hommes, several cells or pockets. The effect of this construction is shown in Fig. 14. The diagonals cut very much in front of the clerestory, all the more because they are Abbaye auxHoCaen. Fig. 14. segmental, struck from a point below the springing, adevice no doubt to avoid a domical crown ; and thesurfaces of the panels are very winding. In the vault of the Abbaye aux Dames at Caen ch. m] THE GOTHIC VAULT 43 this is avoided by not turning any vault from the Abbaye J & J aux intermediate transverse EF, but simply building a Dames,thin wall on the back of the rib up to the soffit ofa regular quadripartite vault. This however is morelike shoring than vaulting. These are perhaps the first examples of the sexpartite sensvault, which occurs frequently in early Gothic churches,as for instance at Sens {v. siip. p. 38, Plate I) where thealternation of the piers according to their office is very re-markable. The main piers are clustered, and are massive,having besides the members that carry the nave arcadeand the aisle vaults a group of shafts in front which risesto receive the transverse and diagonal ribs of the highvault. The intermediate piers on the contrary consist ofa
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