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Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Heath, Sidney H
Subjects: Architecture (Ecclesiastical), Gt. br.: England
Publisher: London : The Homeland Assoc., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mmunicate \vith the nave through an arcade, orseries of arches resting upon piers or pillars. Apillar usually consists of a circular or octagonalshaft standing upon a base and supporting acapital, from the top of which the arch startsor springs. A pier is practically ordinarywalling as though it were, as it often actuallyis, the remains of the original wall of the navethrough which the archway has been cut. Acolumn properly belongs to the classic architectureof Greece and Italy, and its shaft is either amonohth (or single stone), or else built up ofdrums, each drum being a stone of the full widthand circumference of the shaft. In a pillar, how-ever, the single drums are often replaced by twostones, one layer with the central joint north andsouth; the layer above \\dth the joint east andwest. A pier is made up of a multiplicity ofstones, and when surroimded, as often, with numer-ous shafts, is called a clustered pier (48. 65).Sometimes the chancel also has aisles, or pro- A NORMAN NAVE
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Homeland Copyright Nave of Waltham Abbey Church. Illustrating a pier arcade, triforiuiu arcade and clerestory. Note the spiral and zigzag incisions on the massive Xorcnan piers, and vaulting shafts between alternate bays. THE PORCH

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