. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. etails of a decorated for those of a perpendicular arch ; but no onemoderately acquainted with the subject could hesitate in pronouncing the style of a capitalor hase, provided it possessed any character at all. In the Norman period, when the shaftwas round, the highest and lowest members only were S(]uare, the parts itnmediately nextthem being rounded off to suit the shape of tlie shaft {fig. 1266.). This is seen in theordinary form of the cushion
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. etails of a decorated for those of a perpendicular arch ; but no onemoderately acquainted with the subject could hesitate in pronouncing the style of a capitalor hase, provided it possessed any character at all. In the Norman period, when the shaftwas round, the highest and lowest members only were S(]uare, the parts itnmediately nextthem being rounded off to suit the shape of tlie shaft {fig. 1266.). This is seen in theordinary form of the cushion capital. We may observe the lingering reluctance to get ridof the square plinth, in the tongue-shaped leaves or other grotesque excrescences wliich areolten seen to issue from tiie circular mouldmgs of transition Norman bases. Fig. 1080. isa curious example of the square form in front (N), and the circular moulded form in rear, ofthe shaft, shown on plan, fig. 1076. As soon as a sub-arch was introduced the corners of thecapitals were either cut oif or cut out: the former process produced the octagonal form ; the shape of tiie shaft produced.
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