Compound pier

(Arch.)

a clustered column.

A pier that has several engaged shafts against its surface, used often in Romanesque and Gothic structures.

compound pier, compound pillar

A pier composed of a conjunction of colonettes, generally attached to a central shaft; a clustered column. Also see bundle pier.

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