(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.
The Abolition of the Hereditary Lords
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From *The Imaginative Conservative*:
Hereditary lords are those House of Lords members who inherit the right to
sit in the upper house based on past ser...
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