A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . er of stone as wellas to a square or rectangular pier of consider-able extent. By extension, an upright memberset at any turning-point of a stair, or at the topor bottom of a flight ; commonly forming partof the framing of the stairs, when of wood, andserving to connect, and perhaps support, thestrings; and also to support the hand rails at atm-n or at an end. — D. N. B. S. Close; Closed Newel. The central shaftof a turning stair when constructed as a con-tinuous enclosing wall, either hollow or
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . er of stone as wellas to a square or rectangular pier of consider-able extent. By extension, an upright memberset at any turning-point of a stair, or at the topor bottom of a flight ; commonly forming partof the framing of the stairs, when of wood, andserving to connect, and perhaps support, thestrings; and also to support the hand rails at atm-n or at an end. — D. N. B. S. Close; Closed Newel. The central shaftof a turning stair when constructed as a con-tinuous enclosing wall, either hollow or , the term is used to qualify any stairreturning sharply on itself so as to leave nowell, as a dog-legged stair. HoUoTw Ne-wel. The newel or central shaftof a winthng stair when constiiicted as a hollowcylinder, as sometimes in circular masonry erroneously applied to the ojien wellin such a stair when constructed witiiout anewel, and which is properly an open best-known instance of the use of a hollownewel in the former strict sense is in the central1028. NEWEL AT TOP OF STAIRCASE, BUILDING OF LOUIS XII., IN THE CHATEAU, BLOIS, FRANCE; ABOUT 1300 is a massive compouud pier and carries the vaultiug of the roof. 1029 .1030 NEWEL POST stairease of the chateau of Chambord. Here,tlie space inside the newel is occupied at itsiipiiev end by a secondary circular stair.
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