Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 271
e to be of one order, and the most natural modeof supporting them would then, as heretofore, be singlecolumns. Where, however, the wall was so thick as togive it a clumsy look if the arch ran square through it,it would be divided into two orders, and would assume Q 226 LECTURES ON [LECTURE VI. at… … Fig. 141. Fig. 142. Fig. 143. most natural thing would be to form a complex pillarcomposed of four shafts united in one, each apparentlysupporting its own order of the arch (Fig. 143). If the arch were divided into three orders, a morecomplex form suggested itself, containing eight shafts ;and as…
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