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 92
imes plain, but often ornamented by plain or in-tersecting arches, and have generally the flat buttress, butthat of St. Albans runs into a round turret at each corner ofthe upper stage; and at St. Peters, Northampton, there isa singular buttress of three parts of circles, but its date is un-certain… … 70 THE NORMAN STYLE. are very fine specimens of the Norman tower. It does not seemlikely that we have any Norman spires, but they were pro-bably terminated by wooden pyramids, [as at Newhaven;]spires were not introduced until a later period. Norman Battlements. From exposure to weather, and various…
