"Corbelled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... large dimensions and first pointed section, and appear to have been designed to carry western towers, but a part of their thickness has been cut off next the choir. A portion of the triforium wall, a piece of the string-course over the main arcade, and the corbelled vaulting shaft in the angle as high as the top of the triforium, are also parts of the original structure. The later work has been joined to the above old parts in a very awkward manner."[392] The ...
— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story |
