The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 327
FlG. i 20.—Corbel table, Iffley, Oxfordshire. old Roman temples to sustain the light brick masonrycomposing them ; but the heavy stone walls andvaults of Romanesque buildings required strongersupport, and hence were evolved the piers and shortsquat columns generally characteristic of the… … FlG. 121.—Coibel table, Iffley, Oxfordshire. being ornamented in England by llutings or zigzags,as in the crypt of Canterbury, Waltham Abbey,and Lindisfarne ; but after a time the shape of thepier or column became subservient to that of thearches and ribs of the vault above, and square piers…
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