A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 207
peciallyin plain buildings, butmany other, and morecom plicated kinds of pil-lars are employed; thecommonest of these con-sists of a large centralshaft, which is gener-ally circular, with mtil-ler shafts (usually four)round it; these are fre-quently made of a finermaterial than the rest,and… … . WEirotd, c. 1SS0. 200 Pillar.