A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 378
r cesspool. oie STEEPLE STEEPLE. A. A tall orn<amental con-structiuii suniiouiitiiif, a tower and composedusually of a series of features superimposed anddiminishing ui)ward, as the steeples of SirCliristoplKn Wn^ns ohurehes, in contradis-tinction to a Sjiire, which is i)ropcrly a tallpyramid… … Steeple of a Church near Caen in Nor-mandy: c. IIUO. STELE. In Greek and Greeo-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, and…
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