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Solid newel or spiral stairs are circular or polygonal on plan and built around a central pillar or newel, which may be square, polygonal or circular in section.
Open newel
pillar
Post
Solid newel
The stairs likewise to the upper rooms, let them be upon a fair open newel, and finely railed in, with images of wood, cast into a brass color; and a very fair landing-place at the top.
A newel is the upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind. It is sometimes called a solid newel in distinction from a hollow newel, which is really no newel at all, with the stairs being supported at the walls.
 See also: Landing, Staircase, Newel, Architecture, Ground
  
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