Dome structure and piers - drawings to accompany memorandum by Mr R.A. Piercy, March 1922

SPCAA/D/14/2/(1-18)

Sir Mervyn Edmund (1853 - 1932) Macartney, R. A. Piercy

Sketches of buttresses numbers 3 and 4 showing details of joints, cracks and relative vertical movements (Drawing No. 12); diagrams showing present shape of the dome structure in plan at the level of the whispering gallery (Drawing No. 15); survey of the great arches (Drawing No. 16); results of plumbing the dome (Drawing No. 18); levels and bases of piers, whispering gallery and stone terrace (Drawing No. 20); diagrams showing construction of main arches supporting dome structure (Drawing No. 22); diagrams showing thrust lines in arches (Drawing No. 23); diagrams showing positions and magnitudes of horizonal components of the thrusts acting on the top of the pier (Drawing No. 24); side elevation of pier with diagrams showing line of thrust in pier and magnitude of load (Drawing No. 24A)

18 drawings

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