♦ Glossary ♦
Baluster
John Henry Parkercorrupyly banister and ballaster, a small pillar usually made circular, and swelling in the middle or towards the bttom (entasis), commonly used in a balustrade. A rude balustre-shaft occurs in the Romanesque styles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries in England and elsewhere, where it occupies the place of a mid-wall shaft to the tower windows. Some of the examples have evidently been turned in a lathe, and it has been observed that they bear a great resemblance to the spoles of a cart-wheel at the present day, also turned in a lathe in the dane manner. From the eleventh century it was disused till the revival of Classical architecture in the sixteenth.
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