A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 39
which projectsfrom the angles on the top of a tower, or from theparapet or other parts of a build-ing. They are not so common inEngland as on the Continent. Base, the lower part of a pillar,wall, &c„; the division of a column,on which the shaft is placed: theGrecian Doric order has no base,but… … E:ij u;.;ui. Wdmg&le, Ycita. forms and proportions of the va-rious members not being regu-lated by arbitrary rules, as in the Classical orders, thesame capricious varieties are found in the bases, as inall the other features of each ofthe successive styles. In the Nor-man style the mouldings of…
