Rudimentary architecture: for the use of beginners. The history and description of the styles of architecture of various countries, from the earliest to the present period .. (1874)
Bury, Thomas Talbot, 1811-1877 · London, J. Weale · leaf 93
)ortions of colvimns were attached to the square piers;those facing the nave or choir were carried up to theclerestory windows, and from their capitals sprung the ribs of * The nave arches of St. Albans abbey are of the nature here re-fened to. t Fifteen of the twenty-two English cathedrals retain… … St. Johns Chapel, White Tower. the groining of the roof; the others carried a part of themouldings of the nave arches, as in Norwich and Peterboroughcathedrals. In the latest instances, the square pier is entirelydiscontinued, and the columns are connected together withoutthe angular pieces. The…
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