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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
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central round column of coursed masonry, surrounded by four widely detached monolithic shafts, which are adjusted
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FIG. 72.
to the arch orders of the ground-story only. We have here an early instance of that want of structural continuity which is a marked characteristic of pointed architecture in