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Strainer arch

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more than 100 years after the completion of most of the building, but shortly after the addition of a tower (1380). The straining arches were added in the east-west direction, thus being unobtrusive when viewed from the nave. The arrangement at the east crossing (built in 1388) is similar to the one
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building the width of the aisles is half that of the nave, therefore the transverse forces cannot be balanced in an arcade-like fashion.
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the strainer arches are used to carry the thrust from the central vault over the aisles, as in this
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built to relieve the inward pressure off the spanned vertical supports (providing a "
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at Wells, while the great crossing uses a single-arch strainer design. In the
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Strainer arches in the great crossing of the Salisbury Cathedral
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includes an inverted arch at the bottom of the upper opening
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Woodman, Francis; Bloom, Jonathan M. (2003). "Arch".
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Strainer arches in an aisle of the Bristol Cathedral
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Wells Cathedral
arch
buttress
Wells Cathedral
inverted
Romanesque
Gothic
arcades
apse
choir
westwork
crossing
Wells Cathedral
William Joy
Salisbury Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral
hall church
Pillars at the crossing of the Salisbury Cathedral bending due to insufficient buttressing
Salisbury Cathedral
Strainer arches in the great crossing of the Salisbury Cathedral
Strainer arches in an aisle of the Bristol Cathedral
Buttressing arches in Bonifacio, Corsica
Bonifacio, Corsica
Flying buttress
Girder
Flying arch
"Strainer arch"
Woodman & Bloom 2003
Woodman & Bloom 2003

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