Meanings of massive piers in English

Over the intersection of the transept is a cupola supported by massive piers.

The three aisles are formed by massive piers of single blocks of marble.

The principal arches of the choir are supported by massive piers with square bases.

It has semicircular arches, made of Roman bricks, springing from square massive piers with single abaci.

The nave has two aisles, and massive piers with engaged columns support the transverse and lateral arches.

The nave survives as a whole, and contains six bays, divided by massive piers, and surmounted by a triforium and clerestory.

Swifts were skimming over the water and red-legged falcons hovered and dived all round these solitary survivors of twenty massive piers.

They were being tossed helplessly in the tempest, and might at any moment crash against the massive piers that supported London Bridge.

The cupola is raised on a sort of drum composed of twelve pieces, perforated with round windows and supported on four massive piers.

The vault sprang from massive piers and the marble facings had long fallen away, laying bare a battered and voluminous core of brick and rubble.