Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 144
umns were employed in connection with the vault.2 Such columns seem first to have been used in the chevet,as, for example, at Poissy and Pontoise (111. 166), and they wereprobably substituted for compound piers partly in order toeconomize floor space, partly with a view to giving an appear-ance of… … III. 180. — Noyon. Interior ADJUSTMENT OF SHAFTS ing shafts, which, since wall ribs were now generally included,were five in number and of no inconsiderable bulk. For thepresent they were continued to the ground as of old, along theface of the column (111. 173); but before long it was found…
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