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	Religion Glossary Section 1
		A compound pier (or clustered pier) is a pier comprising a number of shafts, common in Gothic architecture
		In Chrsitian church architecture: An obliquely cut opening in a wall or through a pier to allow a view of the main altar of a church from places whence it could not otherwise be seen.
		In medieval architecture, one of the narrow vertical parts which together form a pier or pillar, or window and door surrounds.
	www.religionatlas.org /TeacherResources/Glossary/GlossaryS4.asp

	Gothic and Romanesque Cathedrals
		Part of a church, hall or other building, parallel to the main span and divided from it by an ARCADE of piers or columns or in rare cases by a screen wall.
		I. A range of arches carried on piers or columns, either free-standing or blind, i.e., attached to a wall.
		an exterior pier counteracting the thrust of a vault or arch.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~hart205/Cathedrals/gloss.html

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	Pilaster - Definition of Pilaster by Webster's Online Dictionary
		), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order.
		(Arch.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Pilaster (94 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture (A)
		In architecture, an aisle is a lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clerestory wall.
		In architecture an anta is a species of pier produced by the thickening of a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
		In architecture an archivolt is the architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /T.HTM (2357 words)

	Gothic architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gothic elements in these buildings are the paired lancet windows joined under a molding that threw rainwater away from their sills, and the buttresses between each pier and on the angles of the gatehouse tower.
		Gothic architecture is a style of European architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, beginning in 12
		Gothic architecture has nothing to do with the historical Goths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gothic_architecture (1941 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture (J-K)
		In architecture a jamb is the vertical side of any opening, such as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, the term applies to any narrow vertical surface of a wall, such as the wall of a chimney- breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.
		In architecture a keystone is the central or topmost stone of an arch.
		In architecture a joist is a piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /T8.HTM (1941 words)

	Archpedia - Gothic Architecture
		At the technical level Gothic architecture is characterized by the ribbed vault (a vault in which stone ribs carry the vaulted surface), the pointed arch, and the flying buttress (normally a half arch carrying the thrust of a roof or vault across an aisle to an outer pier or buttress).
		These features were all present in a number of earlier, Romanesque buildings, and one of the major 12th- and early 13th-century achievements was to use this engineering expertise to create major buildings that became, in succession, broader and taller.
		Perhaps because of liturgical inconvenience, it later became more common to keep firm the architectural divisions between the peripheral eastern chapels, as at Reims (rebuilt after a fire destroyed the original cathedral in 1210) and Amiens (begun 1220) cathedrals, for example.
	www.archpedia.com /Styles-Gothic-1.html (974 words)

	capital -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in architecture, crowning member of a column, pier, anta, pilaster, or other columnar form, providing a structural support for the horizontal member (entablature) or arch above.
		A capital gain is the increase in value of a capital asset such as a share of stock, a government or corporate bond, or a piece of real estate.
		In the Classical styles, the capital is the architectural member that most readily distinguishes the order.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020145?tocId=9020145 (850 words)

	capital (architecture)
		In architecture, a stone placed on the top of a column, pier, or pilaster, and usually wider on the upper surface than the diameter of the supporting shaft.
		A capital consists of three parts: the top member, called the abacus, a block that acts as the supporting surface to the superstructure; the middle portion, known as the bell or echinus&; and the lower part, called the necking or astragal.
		There are three basic types of capital, each originating with the ancient Greeks: the Doric&; the Ionic, which is a scroll-like design; and the Corinthian, which is very ornate in style.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0000574.html (193 words)

	CRSBI: Glossary
		A series of arches supported by piers or columns: when applied to the surface of a wall it is called a blind arcade; when used ornamentally, it is called arcading.
		The moulded foot of a column, half-column, pier or pilaster, usually resting on a plinth.
		A pier with several shafts attached or detached, or half-shafts against the faces of it.
	www.crsbi.ac.uk /glossary.htm (193 words)

	compound pier -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in architecture, crowning member of a column, pier, anta, pilaster, or other columnar form, providing a structural support for the horizontal member (entablature) or arch above.
		Piers serve the same purpose as piles but are not installed by...
		As engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi was one of the more innovative builders of the 20th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9025031 (193 words)

	Architecture Final Project Main Page
		Pier is also the term used for the solid mass between windows.
		When combined with pilasters, columns or shafts it is called a compound pier.
	www.lillylion.com /architecure/11pierpillar.htm (193 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Modern Architecture
		A series of steel arches span the vast main hall, descending to form a row of steel wall piers (pillars) reminiscent of the columns in a church or Greek temple.
		Among the architects who produced important variants are Pier Luigi Nervi and Aldo Rossi of Italy, and Louis Kahn of the United States.
		The chimney and rugged stone supporting piers intersect the cantilevers to form vertical counterpoints to these horizontals.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761595616__1/Modern_Architecture.html (193 words)

	Normandy Excursions, Cultural travel tours of Normandy: Norman Architecture
		The intermediate transverse aisle arch was suppressed and the pier, without arches to support, could be reduced in size, and to support the great nave arches, pilasters were attached to the nave face of the pier.
		At first, all these arches ended at the capital above the pier, but soon, the ribbed arches were continued into the pier, This became the compound pier, which later, was an important factor in the Gothic structural system.
		But now, each pier carried the pressure of the transverse arches across the aisles, the arcade, and the ribbed arches of the nave.
	mynormandy.home.att.net /regards-pierre.html (193 words)

	The Department of Public Property's Virtual City Hall
		Pilasters In architecture a pilaster is an upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order.
		Monolithic Constituting a monolith: a monolithic sculpture; Massive, solid, and uniform: the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture; Constituting or acting as a single, often rigid, uniform whole: a monolithic worldwide movement.
		Pediments In classical architecture a pediment was the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof.
	www.phila.gov /property/virtualcityhall/glossary3.asp (387 words)

	Ted Banning's Archaeological Research at University of Toronto
		The Neolithic period: Triumphs of architecture, agriculture, and art.
		Houses and the changing residential unit: Domestic architecture at PPNB 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan.
		Southern Levantine pier houses: Intersite architectural patterning during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. Paléorient 14: 65-72 (with B. Byrd).
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~banning/public.htm (700 words)

	Mole (architecture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water.
		This article relating to architecture is a stub.
		This page was last modified 15:34, 12 October 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mole_(architecture) (55 words)

	Normandy Excursions, Cultural travel tours of Normandy: Norman Architecture
		In the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan, built around 900, transverse arches were thrown from each pier of the arcade to the aisle wall, probably for the first time.
		It was a very vigorous civilization, proud of its achievements, and architectural expression, as a symbol of leadership, power and wealth, became imperative.
		The style developed in Normandy during the eleventh century was at once simple and elegant, a logical evolution of design, which made possible the achievements of the French builders in the next century.
	mynormandy.home.att.net /regards-pierre.html (55 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gothic Architecture
		Finally, the new diagonals suggested new vertical supports in the angles of the pier, and so we obtain the fully developed compound pier, which later, at the hands of the English, was to be carried to such extremes of beauty, and to form a potent factor in the development of the Gothic structural system.
		The logical sense, that demanded the grounding of every downward thrust of vault rib either at the pavement or on the abacus of the pier or column caps, was not operative, and in most cases the vault shafts were stopped on corbels above the level of nave capitals.
		Neither for structural nor aesthetic reasons was it necessary that these nave arches should spring from every pier, so every alternate pier was chosen, the intermediate transverse aisle arch being suppressed and the pier, that no longer had a lateral arch to support, reduced in size.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06665b.htm (55 words)

	BDP - News and Press - Wigan Pier Quarter
		A concentration of late 18th to early 20th Century industrial architecture dominates the area including the extensive Eckersley's Mill complex, Trencherfield Mill and properties adjacent to the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, including the Pier itself.
		BDP Planning has been appointed by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in conjunction with Worsley Mesnes SRB6 Partnership to prepare a development strategy for the Wigan Pier area of the town.
		The Pier area occupies a strategic location between Wigan Town Centre and the Robin Park leisure and retail complex.
	www.bdp.co.uk /news/2001/a010131.asp (55 words)

	Central London Pier Locations - Silver Fleet, River Thames, London
		They all have their own piers in close proximity, so your lunch or dinner cruise onboard your Silver Fleet vessel is never more than a few footsteps away.
		The Silver Fleet is able to cruise from any central London pier with the option of additional call-ins and alongside periods to allow flexibility for every event.
		Pier usage is subject to tidal restrictions at certain times.
	www.silverfleet.co.uk /Pier%2bLocations/default.aspx (55 words)

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		Westminster and St. James' Park tube and by boat to Westminster Pier.
		As much a national monument and mausoleum as a church, Westminster Abbey is one of the most impressive examples of medieval architecture in Britain.
		Edward the Confessor began construction of the Abbey in 1050, and while little remains of the original building, much of the Abbey is several hundred years old.
	www.ebigoe.com /pages/london_scene/westabbey.html (55 words)

	Side Trips in Deerfield Beach The Tree Zoo, International Pier, train station, boat races, boat parades
		The International Pier is open 24/7 most of the time and is a great place to walk, or just sit and relax, or, like this young man, to catch the big one.
		The original pier was built in the mid-70's and was visited by President Ford on February 28th, 1976.
		That pier fell down, almost literally, and was replaced by the present 920 foot structure a few years ago.
	www.netpartnerpro.com /web/DBUSA/SideTrips/index.html (846 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology Miscellaneous articles: Notes on the Leen and the buildings on its banks, including the churches of Lenton, Radford, Old Basford and Bulwell (4)
		From the notes made by Stretton, prior to its demolition, we learn that the old church comprised a nave, and south-aisle, separated by a pier-arcade of two pointed arches carried on cylindrical columns, and a low tower steeple of Norman architecture, while the chancel was of the “lancet” period.
		All that remains visible of the old church is a few fragments of worked stone, built into the boundary walls of the churchyard, or scattered about in the gardens around, and two old bells which are re-hung in the tower.
		The “town” of Radford, now incorporated with the City of Nottingham, is a busy hive of industry, and the church wears a very modern aspect, no part of the present fabric dating back more than a century.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /articles/summerexcursion1916/leen4.htm (846 words)

	A Beginner's Illustrated Guide of Gothic Architecture
		Gothic Revival architecture peaked from the 1750s to about 1900.
		- a buttress (a pier that supports a wall) with a rampant arch which supports the masonry curtain walls of Gothic construction.
		It became one of the preferred styles for church achitecture in the United States.
	www.cmhpf.org /kids/Guideboox/GothicArchitecture.html (238 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture (A)
		In architecture, an aisle is a lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clerestory wall.
		In architecture an anta is a species of pier produced by the thickening of a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
		Architecture (A) In architecture, an abaciscus is a tile or square of a tessellated pavement.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /T.HTM (2357 words)

	Cleveland Sacred Landmarks
		The complexity of the piers and the reduction of wall surface resulting from larger openings also anticipated the brighter walls of later Gothic architecture.
		Important architectural innovations of this era included the development of new vaulting with ribs as the principal structural element; the refinement of pier form, in which several structural members were grouped together in compound designs; and the introduction of the tribune gallery in the space between the vaulting and the roof of the side aisle.
		This became a typical feature in other churches and was used to provide additional illumination to this otherwise dark but important intersection above the high altar.
	www.csuohio.edu /ce/csl/adaption.html (2357 words)

	Romanesque Architecture
		Compound pier- a pier with attached half-columns, pilasters, or shafts.
		Radiating Chapels- chapels that "radiate" or project like the spokes of a wheel from the ambulatory.
		These elements "respond" to vaults, ribs, or arches above them.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/arth109/arth109_sl19.html (2357 words)

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