A respond is a half- pier or half-pillar that is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an arch. [1]
References
- ^ Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 733, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
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