Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 173
se a single column supporting arches of a single order (Fig. 300), and that we desire to extend the arches to three orders, Fig. 301. retaining the same main bearing- shaft. We may imagine the ad- ditional orders to be super-added on all sides of the original square springer and additional… … Fig. 302. Fig. 304. Fig. 306. The process may be carried a step farther, and eight colonnettes be set round the original bearing-shaft (Fig. 304). In St. Mary's Abbey,1 at York (towards the end of the twelfth century), we have an instance of sixteen colonnettes thus placed round a bearing-shaft…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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