Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 163
81, or compare 67, 80). Theshape is not, however, the determining point, for roundpiers are found in the English Romanesque. Thisappears in the view of Hereford Cathedral (Fig. 82).Properly speaking the pier is an aggregation of masonrywithout reference to shape, as visible also in this lastcase.… … Fig. 85.—Speyer Cathedkai.. by the great perpendicular dimensions. In the columnsof medieval churches, which were almost invariablytaken from Eoman ruins, as long as the supply lasted, itappears to have been almost invariably the entirely ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE. 147 monolitliic columns which were…
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