robinsongeoff
HPIM0528 .. Binondo, the Interior . . .
It was not until I returned home, and processed the photos through my computer, that I suddenly realized that there are NO ARCADES OF ARCHES supporting the nave roof . . . which must be all of one hundred feet long !!!!
I can only imagine that there is the MOTHER-OF-ALL-RSJ's, each side . . . running from the top of the square pillars shown in my picture, to the gallery at the west-End . . . supporting the entire length of the Barrel-Vault ~ which is forty feet wide, and sixty feet high !!!
The 120-ft-high dome is no problem . . . it sits, traditionally, on four semi-circular arches, whose springers rest on the four square columns of the centre-tower.
HPIM0528 .. Binondo, the Interior . . .
It was not until I returned home, and processed the photos through my computer, that I suddenly realized that there are NO ARCADES OF ARCHES supporting the nave roof . . . which must be all of one hundred feet long !!!!
I can only imagine that there is the MOTHER-OF-ALL-RSJ's, each side . . . running from the top of the square pillars shown in my picture, to the gallery at the west-End . . . supporting the entire length of the Barrel-Vault ~ which is forty feet wide, and sixty feet high !!!
The 120-ft-high dome is no problem . . . it sits, traditionally, on four semi-circular arches, whose springers rest on the four square columns of the centre-tower.