An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 93
ng arcades.At Iffley the stair-turret is squarebelow and round above, and in theround part there is an elegant kindof large fluting with small shaftsin the recesses ; and the roof, whichis semi-pyramidal, but abuttingagainst the upper part of thetower, is gioined, to correspondwith the fluting… … Iffley, Oxfordshire, c. 1160. Norman Steeples. The Norman steeple was mostly a massive tower, seldomrising more than a square in height above the roof of thebuilding to which it belonged, and often not so much. Theyare sometimes plain, but often ornamented by plain or in-tersecting arches, and have…
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