Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 326
ints. Col-umns are ordinarily circular in section; piers, on the other hand, are more often square, rec-tangular, or of some complicated form. For a given area of section a column is probably strongerthan a pier; but the size of a pier can be increased so (hat it may be made large enough to…
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