Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 300
squareor oblong in plan, and its thickness in relation to its height isconsiderably more than the thickness of a column, it is called apier even though it carries a lintel. When a pier is topped bya projecting stone or series of mouldings from which an arch 251 10 THE ROMAN ORDERS springs, this… … r -Jterioisi ^^ECOND -EXEECI^E-J ^PLAN- Fig. 4. 25. An arch is a support constructed of separate stones,units, or voussoirs, with its center higher than its two ends, andof an outline which is, in part or entirely, a circle, or a curve laidout from one or more centers. A vault is a continuous arch…
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