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Summary: They are employed to counteract the thrust caused by the main vault or more properly speaking to transmit it to the outer buttresses They lend themselves to considerable ornamentation Fig 146 The arches should be of flat sweep The upper surface may be channelled and utilised to lead the water from the clerestory guttering to the outer walls or may be saddlebacked

Image Dimensions: 317 x 651