frontof many a parish churchwith its single westerntower. This last arrangement,of a low, broad, pinnacledwestern tower, was pecu-liarly English,deep-rootedin the hearts c^f the peoplefrom Anglo-Saxon times,and with a quiet homelydignity about it, extremely-characteristic of Englishvillage life. In… … [G. H. U-THE ABBAYE ALX HOMMES, CAE.N Stones of Venice, i, oh. xix.M i62 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE in the lower part of many towers could ill be spared. Ruskinalso objects to buttresses or pinnacles, whereas in a towerforming part of a facade a purely vertical line causes it tolook larg-er at the top, as…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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