Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford [etc.] Parker and Co. · leaf 132
dare a good feature, as at Ilton, Somerset. Pinnaclesare sometimes inserted at the angles, and producea very good effects The spire is generally a very fine feature of an EarlyEnglish church; some great architects have gone sofar as to say that a tower is never complete withoutone, but that is… … 122 THE EAELY ENGLISH STYLE. The East End is almost invariably square in Early-English work, as at Cowley, Oxon, p. 94, althoughwe have a few examples of the apsidal termination,generally a half-octagon, or half-hexagon, as in West-minster Abbey, and several other large churches. Inthe small parish…
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