A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 600
id.Hence, the term is used to (pialify any stairreturning sharply on it.sclf so as to leave nowell, as a ildg-legged stsdr. Hollow Newel. The newel or central shaftof a winding stair when constnicted as a hollowcylinder, sis sometimes in circidar masonry stairs.Sometimes erronetjusly applied to the… … Tliis ricrwel is a masnivc compound pier and carricH the vaiilthiK <>f tlii> roof. NEWEL POSTstaircase of the chateau of Chambord. Here,the space inside the newel is occupied at itsupper end by a secondary circular stair.
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