band of a shaft

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Annulets, bandelets, bandlets, or shaft-rings around colonnettes and slender shafts in Gothic architecture, at the junctions of monolithic lengths, often tying the shafts to the pier behind, as in a cluster arrangement.

Band of a shaft
Band of a shaft

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