Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 122
efoil sections. The plain double shaft, however, is byfar the most frequent, both in the Northern and SouthernGothic, but for the most part early ; it is very frequent incloisters, and in the singular one of St. Michaels Mount, Nor- * I have not been at the pains to draw the complicated piers in… … Plate II.—Plans of Piers. THE SHAFT. 109 mandy, a small pseudo-arcade runs along between the pairs ofshafts, a miniature aisle. The group is employed on a mag-nificent scale, but ill proportioned, for the main piers of theapse of the cathedral of Coutances, its purpose being to con.ceal one shaft…
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