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 Literatuur

 

- Sherwood, Jennifer & Nicolaus Pevsner, Oxfordshire. Deel in de serie 'The Buildings of England'. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1975_{(1e druk 1974)}. [936 blz. ISBN 0.14.071045.0]. Hierin "Divinity School": blz. 257-259, afb-nr 44 (in de uitvoerige beschrijving van het gewelf, dat voltooid werd in 1483: "[...] For the vault is first of all a matter of four strong transverse arches plus the two wall arches. About halfway up they have a pair of pendants each, and it was the pride of that ingenious man William Orchard to let his whole vault with all its complicated ribs appear to issue from these pendants, wich of course for structural reasons it can't. In fact the pendants are just bold arch voussoirs, and the vault is a lierne-vault with its weight pressing on the arches, the outer walls, and the buttresses. The vault is much like a fan-vault, but it isn't, as the ribs are too prominent. So a lierne-vault it ought to be called. It has innumerable bosses [...]")