compound pier造句

• The interior has a nave divided from the aisles by compound piers.
• The tall compound piers are based on those in the cathedrals of Minden and Paderborn.
• The ribbed vaults of the three naves  all of equal height  are supported by sturdy compound piers.
• The naturalistic capital ornamentation of the compound piers in the Marienkirche bears a resemblance to the foliated capitals at the Elisabethkirche in Marburg and at Minden Cathedral.
• The inside of the choir and the ambulatory are divided by compound piers consisting of massive circular columns each with four ancillary shafts, which support the prominent vaulting.
• Other characteristics of early Gothic architecture, such as vertical shafts, clustered columns, compound piers, plate tracery and groups of narrow openings had evolved during the Romanesque period.