(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.
Gone but not forgotten: Months later, former Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika
is threatening priests
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Stika presents a microcosm of the sewage we're still mired in ...
From Knox News Sentinel:
Though he hasn’t been employed by the Catholic Diocese of Kno...
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