A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 373
istern, or cesspool.616 STEEPLE STEEPLE. A. A tall oriKimental con-struetiun siiniioimtiiig a tower and composedusually of a series of features superimposed anddiminishing upward, as the steeples of SirChristopher Wrens churches, in contradis-tinction to a Spire, which is properly a tallpyramid… … Steeple of a Church near C.^en in Nor-mandy: c. 1160. STELE. In Greek and Greco-Roman art, apillar or upright monument composed of one ortwo stones and simple in its outline and generalcharacter, although it may be adorned with veryelaborate carving. The more common formswere a slender cylinder,…
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