. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig. lOM. ABBEY, Fig. 1096. CIlDlli Fig. AND CllOllt. TIXTERX ABBEY. Fig. 1100. A1>LK.^ULT1^?0 SHAFTS. has not yet been settled wliether this shaft in some early buildinjjjs was. or was not,so carried u)) to receive the cross-rib of a vault, or simply to bear the beam of tiierooKng. Wiien vaulting became more general, the purpose of the shaft was undis-guised f/t?. 1278. >, and being made
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig. lOM. ABBEY, Fig. 1096. CIlDlli Fig. AND CllOllt. TIXTERX ABBEY. Fig. 1100. A1>LK.^ULT1^?0 SHAFTS. has not yet been settled wliether this shaft in some early buildinjjjs was. or was not,so carried u)) to receive the cross-rib of a vault, or simply to bear the beam of tiierooKng. Wiien vaulting became more general, the purpose of the shaft was undis-guised f/t?. 1278. >, and being made correspondent with the vaulting ribs, the groups ofthe latter were received on a colonnetteor on small columns. Tlie vaulting ribsat St. Saviours (Southwark) Church,are given in Jig. 662e. In tlie latterpart of the 15th century engaged colon-nettes for receiving the vault ribs risefrom corbels placed on or above thecapitals of the shafts, and sometimesthe ribs themselves spring froin thecorbels (Jigs. 1274. and 1275.), andlater, or in the perpendicular period,tlie older form was, as it were, reverted to, and the attached circular shaft was carried upto, and received the vaulting ribs, as mjiys. 1302., 1307., 1314., 13
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