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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
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to the top of the wall, [1] and hence, when the vaulting was undertaken, they may naturally have suggested the intermediate arch of the sexpartite vault. However this may be, the piers, though not originally designed or adapted for
FIG. 16.
- ↑ A similar alternate arrangement of piers with intermediate shafts carried up to the top of the wall was not unfrequent in Norman buildings, both in Normandy and in England, as in Jumieges and Norwich. Constructively this is useless alike"
