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The cathedrals and churches of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1908)

Bumpus, Thomas Francis · London, T. W. Laurie · leaf 54

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ons, and support thinmetal spires spreading out their bases like those which wereremoved from Lincoln Cathedral early in the last century. Some of the Danish steeples of the Rococo Period, com- 26 CHURCH OF OUR LADY AT ROESKILDE FROM THE NORTH EAST. (SHEWING THE TYPICAL DANISH GABLED TOWER.)… … INTRODUCTORY SKETCH posed as they are of a succession of small domed turretsterminating in a spirelet, are picturesque, as, for instance,that of the Holmens Kirke at Copenhagen. It is, however,to be feared that not a few of these picturesque composi-tions have been removed, to give place to the…

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