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 (1838)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 461
in several examples of spires. In this place weshall merely name the buildings on which the originals ofthe annexed eight specimens are to be found; referring thereader for observations on their peculiar characteristics, andon spires, steeples, towers, and turrets, in general, to thearticles… … Fig. 1, summit to one of the turrets at the east end ofSi. Peter s Church, Oxford. Fig. 2, from the south angleof the west front of Rochester Cathedral. Fig. 3, one of twospires, or pinnacles, at the angles of the west front ofBishops-Cleeve Church, Gloucestershire. Fig. 4, the pyra-midal roof of…
