produced by the lierne and tierceron vaults of the period, in the three-dimensional handling of wall surfaces broken up by canopy work and sculpture and in imaginative spatial planning making use of diagonal axes.Demi-or half-column ...
Composite pier: A type of pier that is composed not of a single member but has shafts, half-columns, or pilaster strips attached to it. Other types of piers: drum pier Concentric: Having two sets of walls, one inside the other.
engaged column A half-column set into a wall or other flat surface. feretory A chapel containing the shrine for a saint's relics. Flamboyant The late Gothic style in France, characterized by long wavy tracery designs.
On the exterior, the verticality is emphasised in a major way by the towers and spires and in a lesser way by strongly projecting vertical buttresses, by narrow half-columns called attached shafts which often pass through several storeys of the ...
A type of pier that is composed not of a single member but has shafts, half-columns, or pilaster strips attached to it.
concrete ...
 See also: Hall, Chapel, Nave, Gable, Church
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