quiet dignity,and there is hardly a village church in England which cannotshow a specimen of it. It is essentially the style of thevillage community in which squire and people worked to-gether, sometimes on the manor house sometimes on thechurch, building both in the same style. And it was to… … South tower 1110-1170: CHARTRES FAQADEnorth spire 1513- Rose windov.- of plate tracery. Porchfrom the older church. CHAPTER VIITowers and Spires TOWERS were built from quite early imperial times inItaly, and the tradition lasted throuy;h the Middle Ag^es,when they served not only for the hanging-…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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