This immense building is covered with vaults of a very simple form and still simpler construction, being of a rubble or coarse concrete several feet in thickness, which is laid on a rude mould or centering of bricks and mud, and allowed to stand a year... Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh - Page 3621877Full view - About this book
| James Fergusson - 1855 - 578 pages
...interior dimensions being thus 263 ft. by 145. This immense building is covered with vaults of ven- simple form and still simpler construction, being...feet in thickness, which is laid on a rude mould or cfnteriny of bricks and mud, and allowed to stand a year or two to dry and set. The centering is then... | |
| James Fergusson - Architecture - 1855 - 546 pages
...aii octagonal apartment, 53 ft. in diameter, the whole interior dimensions being thus 263 ft. by 145. This immense building is covered with vaults of very...construction, being of a rubble or coarse concrete several foot in thickness, which is laid on a rude mould or centering of bricks and mud, and allowed to stand... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1861 - 552 pages
...still simpler " construction, being of a rubble or " coarse concrete, several feet in tliick" ness, which is laid on a rude mould or " centering of bricks...and mud, and " allowed to stand a year or two to dry •• üiid set. The centering is then re" moved, and the vault, being in one ~ piece, stands without... | |
| English periodicals - 1861 - 576 pages
...145 wide, including an ante chamber at each end. " This immense building is covered with " vaults of simple form and still simpler " construction, being...of a rubble or " coarse concrete, several feet in thick" ness, which is laid on a rude mould or " centering of bricks and mud, and " allowed to stand... | |
| James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 814 pages
...octagonal apartment, . r i3 ft. in diameter, the whole interior dimensions being thus 263 ft. by 145 ft. This immense building is covered with vaults of very...being of a rubble or coarse concrete several feet 3ia. Plan of Imambara at Lucknow. (From Measurements by the Anthor.) Scale i00 ft. to I in. in thickness,... | |
| James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 792 pages
...feet :T!:!. Plan of luiatnbara at Lucknow. (From Measurements by the Anthor.) Scale i00 ft. to I ia. in thickness, which is laid on a rude mould or centering...bricks and mud, and allowed to stand a year or two to set and dry. The centering is then removed, and the vault, being in one piece, stands without abutment... | |
| James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 790 pages
...octagonal apartment, 53 ft.' in diameter, the whole interior dimensions being thus 263 ft. by 145 ft. This immense building is covered with vaults of very...being of a rubble or coarse concrete several feet .'UI Plan of Imambara at Lucknow. (From Measurcments by thc Author.) Scale 100 ft. to 1 tn, in thickness,... | |
| William Sproston Caine - Description and Travel - 1891 - 688 pages
...whole interior dimensions being thus 263 feet by 145. This immense building is covered with vaults of a very simple form and still simpler construction, being...bricks and mud, and allowed to stand a year or two to set and dry. The centering is then removed, and the vault, being in one piece, stands without abutment... | |
| James Fergusson - Architecture - 1899 - 398 pages
...octagonal apartment, M ft. in diameter, the whole interior dimensions heing thus 2113 ft. by 145 ft. This immense building is covered with vaults of very simple form and still simpler construction, Iieing of a rubble or coarse concrete several feet 3i3. Plan of Imambara at Lucknow. (From Measurement... | |
| Sir George Forrest - India - 1903 - 380 pages
...the world which has an arched roof without supports. The historian of Indian Architecture writes : " This immense building is covered with vaults of very...feet in thickness, which is laid on a rude mould or centreing of bricks and mud, and allowed to stand a year or two to set and dry. The centreing is then... | |
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