An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 479
rris was L;iven a band of crockets, which had the practical value that they provideda .series of steps by which a steeplejack could ascend to the weather-cock when itgot jammed. At llrst the crockets were set rather close, as at Grantham (936) ; I5eadecl pinnacles occur at the beginning of the… … attervvards as far apart as the steeplejack couldstride, e.^i^., at Louth (954). The sides of the spires also were ofteu leftplain, e.i^., at Patrinoton (949). Sometimes theywere cut into slices bv horizontal strino-courses,e.o-., at Lichfield. Sometimes carved bands wereemployed ; three bands are…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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