A companion to the fourth edition of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 32
., de Gest. Reg.Angl., p. 20. v. 847—855. Campanile of SantaErancesca Romana, Rome. Built by Leo IV. in the ninth century.Adrian I., who was elected in 772, erectedthe first belfry: it was of a character verysimilar to this, and became the model afterwhich most of the ancient belfries of Romewere… … Campanile of S. Francesca. ROMANESQUE. 15 dows, divided by single pillars [or shafts] standing in the middle of the thick-ness of the wall, with a block of stone reaching through the wall, servingas capital to the shaft and impost to the two small arches of the openings.[The belfries of the…
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