A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 206
nnuid andpolygonal churches of the early Ronianes(iuc,produced the compound pier, and, where archesmet at right angles, the cruciform ])ier. Inthe north, and in Italy vifhen the supply ofcolumns that could be got from the RomanI)uildings was exhausted, piers were the naturalsupports of the arcades.… … Romanesque Architecture: Piscina, Kirk-stall Abbky, Yorkshire; c. llliO. the shape B. As the workmen gained skillhalf columns were substituted for the j^ilasters,and the forms A and B resulted. When jii-lasters or shafts were carried up on the side ofthe nave to receive cross arches or…
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