Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 158
sornaments of jewels having facet-faces like crystallineshapes. In this way we are reminded that nature, throughher botanical forms, contributes little or nothing to thesearchitects when they seek to adorn their buildings. §Column=shafts and Capital. The ornamental col-umn, with its slender shaft… … distinguished : the cubiform capital, in which the lowerpart of the cube is rounded off and curved toward theshaft, thus mediating between the curved surface of theshaft and the flat face of the upper part of the cube; 1^6 Ecclesiastical Architecture. the bell-shaped capital, in which the neck is…
Church architecture
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