. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. FiR. AT MTTLBMATLKSTEAU. Fir. 12 OK Tiiu SEreLCUKU, Chap IV. MODERN INVESTIGATIONS. base of the trianglu of the transverse section, tlicrefore the height of the abbey jsmore than tlie cathedrals. The cliancel of Bristol Cathedral lias no triforium, and isaccordingly kss in height. These buildings having been based upon the equilateraltriangle, that figure will alone be a key to them, and it will be
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. FiR. AT MTTLBMATLKSTEAU. Fir. 12 OK Tiiu SEreLCUKU, Chap IV. MODERN INVESTIGATIONS. base of the trianglu of the transverse section, tlicrefore the height of the abbey jsmore than tlie cathedrals. The cliancel of Bristol Cathedral lias no triforium, and isaccordingly kss in height. These buildings having been based upon the equilateraltriangle, that figure will alone be a key to them, and it will be futile to try the S!]uare. InWestminster Abbey that figure mostly abounds (in trefoils, hexafoils, dodecafoils, &c.) ;wliile Salisbury Cathedral, being based on the .(/((arc, that figure and its products will befound cliiefly employed (in tctraoils, octafoils, &;c.). Tliis building is 4 scjuares high. Dr. Henszlmann, in his Bernards on liis alleged discovery of the constructional laws ofmediaeval church anhitecture, nad at the Institute of British Architects, 1852, states that«tiie architects of old did not employ much reckoning in their constructions, but used geo-metric forms.— In studying the chuiches, I became persuaded t
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