. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. U £o u -a > X XXw H 3°4 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. Sometimes these blocks supported-small arches (). These features were called tablets or corbeltables. In early Christian times the basilicas had de-pended upon the columns plundered or copied from. 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 cha
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. U £o u -a > X XXw H 3°4 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. Sometimes these blocks supported-small arches (). These features were called tablets or corbeltables. In early Christian times the basilicas had de-pended upon the columns plundered or copied from. 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 style(Plate XXXVIII, Fig. e). Of these, some weresquare, some octagonal, and some round, the shafts
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