Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 82
wasintended that each shaft of the group should be seen tosupport some definite feature of the superincumbent struc-ture, as where a separate group of .mouldings springsfrom each shaft in a doorway, and this principle wasvery steadily adhered to during the greater part of theGothic peiiod. Through… … Fig. 15.—Houses at Lisieux, France. (16th Ckxtcet.) 42 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. intervals by bands or belts of masonry, and generally theentire group is neai-ly circular on plan. In the succeedingcentury (Dec. period) the piers also take the form ofgroups of shafts, but they are generally carved out of…
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