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An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)

Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 476

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But theuppermost of the three stories of a tower in Normandy was designed with anelonoation of lightness (juite unknown in Hn^land (931). An evolution, not dissimilar,may be noticed in the KnoHsh steeples ; e.^<^., compare the thirteenth-century towerof St. Mary. Stamford {934), with the… … ■A ., J. P. Oxford Cathedral belfry stages of towers, the lower parts of which are lost in the facade (946). Thesame mistake was sometimes made when the western towers had no spires ; e.o-., inYork minster ; at Beverley, on the other hand, the western towers are towers all theway to the ground. A…

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