A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 102
1 II I AR bQUARF AVr> K It ND OnKS (fOMMONLY ( ALLEIl PiF.RS AND Columns), Kokanaya, Syri.a; 5th Ckntury a.o. … Pillar FOR.MTAINSc. 1180. Navr Arcade Piers in theOF Simple Pill.arsi Foun-Abbey, Yorkshire, England; 141 and the English Bible (Gen. xix. 2G):if a pillar of called;speaks salt. In architecture,the term is applied toa vertical supportingmember which is not acoluinn nor a pier, inthe usual senses of…
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