An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 445
buttress(juoins of freestone brought from far-away quarries in Northamptonshire and else-where. Now a spire cannot be built of flint and chalk ; it must be freestone throughand through ; and in I^^ast Anglia a whole spire of Barnack freestone would havei)een a very costK affair. The case with… … K. li. Wickhani Market, Suffolk sriRi<:s 921 but. the tower looked so well withoul a .s])ire lh;il apparently it was thou^^lit best tolet well alone; Yatton also possesses an incompleted spire. In no district whichdid not [)ossess excellent buildino- stone, which for a spire should be soft and…
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