. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ried in arrangement that itwould be impossible here to do more than notice tiieir general characteristics, which in the number of sinaller isolated shafts clinging to a central column, to wiiiciithey are at intervals attached, in reality as well as in appearance, by moulded bands orfillets (Westminster Abbey, ^9. 1278.), wherein a circular shaft is found, with four detachedtjolonnettes {Jig. 1058.), and with eight sinall detached
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ried in arrangement that itwould be impossible here to do more than notice tiieir general characteristics, which in the number of sinaller isolated shafts clinging to a central column, to wiiiciithey are at intervals attached, in reality as well as in appearance, by moulded bands orfillets (Westminster Abbey, ^9. 1278.), wherein a circular shaft is found, with four detachedtjolonnettes {Jig. 1058.), and with eight sinall detached shafts at Ely. Fig. 1077. is a gracefully de- . ? signed pier. One ?without the co- lonnettes, and with broader fil-lets, is a very common form in the early English and decorated pe-riods, with some varieties. Geometric and decorated piers have their shafts engaged (^fys. 1078. and 1079.), so that a clustered column is formed by working out the surfaces of themass in lines and hollows. Ihe example (_^^. 1059.), from Westminster Abbey, basfiiurdetaclied, and four attached, colonnettes to the central shaft, but the reason for this excep-.
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