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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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e into use, itbecame customary to shaft windows and doorways, and theangles of towers and buttresses. The square edges of angleswere rounded off into slender engaged colonnettes usually sup-plied with capitals and bases. In windows and doorways suchcolonnettes supported the mouldings or extra orders of the arch.This motive soon attained popularity, and was carried to greatlengths. Each of the many orders of the rich Norman portalswas ordinarily supported by a shaft placed in the jamb. Thismotive, like so many others employed by the Normans, is com-mon to most of Romanesque Europe, so that it is difficult totell when or where it first came into being (111. 140, 141, 142,143, etc). Over their rich doorways (111. 141, 142, 143, 144), the Nor-mans occasionally, as at Ifs, built out a sort of gable with a tri- 1 Notably the arcliivolts of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes. ^ The clearstory of Falaise offers the earhest example of shafted windows that I know.Shafted doorways were used much earlier. 280
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