(Click to enlarge)Looking west. I have suspected for some time that typical features of Gothic architecture- the pointed arch and the clustered column- were developed with stone vaulting in mind. In a pointed arch more of the weight of the arch and what it supports appear to be concentrated over the pier while the lines of the clustered columns may well have acted as markers for the ribs which, as the building progressed upwards, would support the vaulting.
Black Gold?
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Tomorrow, Grahame Morris will lead a Commons debate on the scandal of
successive Governments’ direct theft of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme,
which was on...
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