Note 61

A similar adaptation of a continuous shaft to the concept of a pilier cantonné can be observed in the later piers of Beauvais (1284. ff.), in the piers of Séez (ca. 1260) and in the later piers of Huy (1311 ff.). In the two latter instances, however, the colonnettes facing the arcades and the side aisles are omitted as though the idea of a continuous shaft had been superimposed, not upon the normal pilier cantonné (with four colonnettes) but upon the Soissons pier (which has only one); cf. Note 31.