A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the Middle Ages : including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities ... : also, biographical notices of ancient architects (1838)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 27
most every variety of column in Christian architecture.*Its shape varies in all the classic orders. In those of theTuscan and Doric, the abacus is plain, thick, and rect-angular in plan; but in the Corinthian, Roman-Ionic,and Composite, its sides are ornamented, and, in the * The term Christian… … 2 ARCHITECTURAL DICTIONARY. [aBA latter, are cut into eccentric cavities, or curves, each ofwhich is generally adorned with a flower or other enrich-ment. In general practice, the angles of the abacus arecut off in segments of circles. In the Temple of JupiterOlympius, at Athens, the angles…
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