nook shaft
nook shaft
A column or colonnette set in a square break, as at the angle of a building, or where the jamb of a doorway meets the external face of a wall.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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To the west of the Old Engine shaft a new shaft called the
Nook Shaft was sunk, connecting with the Acomb Flank adit which provided gravity drainage for that part of the mine.
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