Fletcher, Banister; Fletcher, Banister: A history of architecture for the student, craftsman, and amateur: being a comparative view of the historical styles from the earliest period (London, 1896)

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The Erechtheion at Athens (b.c. 420), of which St.
Pancras Church, London, is a modified copy.

The internal order of the Temple at Bassae, in
Phigaleia, in which note the angular treatment of
capital.

The Temple of Diana at Ephesus (b.c. 330),
which was reckoned as one of the seven wonders of
the world.

The Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene, erected
by Pythius (b c. 320).

In the plate (No. 23) is shown the Ionic order of the
Temple on the Ilissus at Athens and the Roman treatment
of the order after Scamozzi (No. 24).

THE CORINTHIAN ORDER

(No. 25) is still more ornate. It was little used by the
Greeks. It is generally about 10 diameters high.

The base and shaft resemble the Ionic order.

The distinctive capital may have been based on the Ionic,
or borrowed from the bell-shaped capital of the Egyptians,
to which was added the spiral of the Assyrians; it has a
deep “bell” below, on which is worked a plain circlet of
acanthus leaves in tiers. The Assyrian honeysuckle orna-
ment occurs in the capital of the order that decorates the
monument of Lysicrates at Athens (No. 25).

We may here note Prof. Baldwin Brown’s opinion that
the foliage ornament carved on capitals is a copy of actual
foliage, wreathed for festal purposes, round the heads of the
posts of a porch.

The abacus to the capital is generally moulded, and the
entablature, which is 24 diameters high, bears a general
resemblance to the Ionic, but with the addition of modil-
lions, and increased enrichments in the mouldings.

Remains :

The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates at
Athens, b.c. 335 (No. 27).

The Tower of the Winds at Athens, b.c. 159,
where notice should be taken of the Egyptian type of
capital used.