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 227
hedto the base. Thischange height-ened the impres-sion of organicconstruction fromfloor to roof. Itmay be said thatearly Gothic gives greatest preference to the half-roundcolumn on piers, to half-round shafts on walls, to thehalf-round mouldings, especially in vaulting ribs. Win-dows in this style… … CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY Gothic Style. 205 received suggestions as to the partition of surfaces andthe pier-supports from the Romanesque buildings; butthe new indwelling spirit in every part seems to obliter-ate any Romanesque likenesses, transforming into oneharmonious whole the old and the new.…
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