. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. not so immediately to those erected in the fourteenth oififteenth centuries. Almost all the cathedrals of the C^othic form are weak and dufuctivein the poise of the vault of the aisles; as for the vaults of the nave, they are on both sidesequally supported and projiped up from spreading by the bowes or flying buttresses, whichrise from the outward walls of the aisles : but for the vaults of the aisles, they are indeedsupported on the outside by the
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. not so immediately to those erected in the fourteenth oififteenth centuries. Almost all the cathedrals of the C^othic form are weak and dufuctivein the poise of the vault of the aisles; as for the vaults of the nave, they are on both sidesequally supported and projiped up from spreading by the bowes or flying buttresses, whichrise from the outward walls of the aisles : but for the vaults of the aisles, they are indeedsupported on the outside by the buttresses ; but inwardly, they have no other stay but thepillars themselves, which, as they are usually proportioned, if they stood alone, without theweight above, could not resist the spreading of the aisles one minute : true, indeed, thegreat load above of the walls and vaulting of the nave should seem to confine the pillars Chap. IV. PRINCIPLES OF PROPORTION. 1049 in their perpendicular station, that there should be no need of butment inwards , butexperience hath shown the contrary, and there is scarce any Gothic cathedral, that I have. KING S COLI-rCE CHAPEI. : PIERS. Fig 1312. seen at home or abroad, wherein I have not observed the pillars to yield and bend inwardsfrom the weight of the vault of the aisle ; but this defect is the most conspicuous upon theangular pillars of the cross, for there not only the vault wants butment, but also the 21 \
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