Respond
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A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which 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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