Attached column

Engaged column A column attached to, or partly sunk into, a wall of pier. Also called an "applied column" or "attached column." Illustration from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery ...

In architecture, a column that is attached to a wall and which is therefore not completely cylindrical. It may not be load bearing, and may exist only to visually articulate the wall. Another term for an engaged column is an attached column.

solid mass between doors, windows, and other openings in buildings PORTAL: a door or entrance PORTICO: a roofed space, open or partly enclosed, forming the entrance of the facade of a temple, house, or church, often with detached or attached columns ...

See also: Entablature, Roof, Square, Masonry, Volute