A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages : including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities, also, biographical notices of ancient architects (1883)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, Godwin, George, 1813-1888 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the Author, Burton Street · leaf 324
several examples of spires. In thisplace we shall merely name the buildings onwhich the originals of the annexed eight speci-mens are to be found; referring the reader forobservations on their peculiai- characteristics, andon spires, steeples, towers, and turrets, in general,to the articles… … J gA; ^ ^--1 Ul ft Fis. 1. summit to one of the turrets at theeast end of St. Peters Church, Oxford. Fig. 2,from the south angle of the west front of RochesterCathedral. Fig. 3, one of two spires, or pinna-cles, at the angles of the west front of Bishops-Cleeve Church, Gloucestershire. Fig. 4, the…
