An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation ; with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders /by the late Thomas Rickman (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 91
r-turret is squarebelow and round above, and in theround part there is an elegant kindof large fluting with small shaftsin the recesses ; and the roof, whichis semi-pyramidal, but abuttingagainst the upper part of thetower, is groined, to correspondwith the fluting below. One also crowns a… … Norman Steeples. The Norman steeple was mostly a massive tower, seldomrising more than a square in height above the roof of thebuilding to which it belonged, and often not so much. Theyare sometimes plain, but often ornamented by plain or in-tersecting arches, and have generally the flat buttress,…
