The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 325
lculated to effect this impressionon the eye, are detached from the main body of the constructive pierwith which they were at a later period incorporated. Sometimesthis effect is greatly increased by a combination of isolated shafts,without the nucleus of a central pier, and in the composition of… … Gothic Shafts from the Lady Chapel, Salisbury. examples, which go far to prove this principle of design to havebeen limited only by the capabilities of the materials employed.Such is the lady chapel of Salisbury Chapel, where four single iso-lated columns, 32 diameters or thereabouts in height,…
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