A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 378
rn, or <csspool. cm STEEPLE STEEPLE. .,1. A tall ornamental con-struct ion suruiountinj; a tower and composedusually of a series of features superimposed anddiminishing upwanl, as the steeples of SirChristoplier Wrens churches, in contradis-tinction to a Spire, which is i)ropcrly a tallpyramid… … V^?*-*^,.-**? Steeple of a Church near Caen in Nor-mandy ; c. 111)0. 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…
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