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Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
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Fig. 1326. SECTION OF HENHY VllS. CHAPEL. 6 inches, and the clear width of the nave 33 feet. The entire width, at tlie basement or levelof the pavement of the crypt, is 79 feet: 26\ feet, or ^, is devoted to points of support, and52; feet, or §, to the side aisles and nave ; the area of a severy shows J applied to wallsand piers, and j to the void, which proportions accord with the early rather than with thelate etamples ; the great weight of the vaulting, which is 62 feet high from the pavementof the chapel, requiring additional strength, the proportions of St. Georges Chapel atWindsor woidd not have been equal to tlie necessary resistance. (See par. 2002w.) Our limits will not permit a more extended inquiry into the principles of proportion,the study of which is calculated to produce an important improvement in the noble art,for the practice of which the young architect must prepare himself by careful measure-ment, not only of the ruins of the Acro()olis and of tlie Capitol, but of

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