TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitchen, John
TI  - Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: a study of medieval vault erection 
SN  - 9780226252032
U1  - 726.6 
PY  - 1981///, c.1961
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University Of Chicago Press
KW  - Architecture, Gothic cathedrals
KW  - Christian art and symbolism
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - Architecture Gothique
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents : List of Figures
1. SOURCES OF INFORMATION--
The structural aspects of medieval building, and the contemporary sources of possible information about its execution--
2. CONSTRUCTIONAL MEANS--
The multiple nature and scope of the falsework requirements--scaffolding, shoring, formwork, and centering--with some provisionally assumed solutions--
3. MEDIEVAL TYPES OF VAULTING--
An analysis of the chief structural developments in medieval times problems, innovations, and solutions--
4. GOTHIC FRAMEWORK--
The significance of the rib. An assessment of what others have written on the nature and extent of the formwork used in Gothic vaulting, together with a possible solution of the formwork problem--
5. GOTHIC CENTERING--
An analysis of the centering problem in Gothic vaulting, along with the types of falsework employed as support for the centering--
6. ERECTION OF RIB VAULTING WITHOUT FORMWORK--
Systems of construction that dispense with falsework. The Gothic system of vault erection without formwork. Summary review of the erectional sequence and procedures in French Gothic rib-vaulted churches

N2  - Describes the process of erecting the great cathedrals in the Gothic era. This text explains the building equipment and falsework needed, the actual operations undertaken, and the sequence of these operations as far as they can be deduced from manuscript illuminations and pictorial representations
ER  -