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Memorials of old Nottinghamshire (1912)

Guilford, Everard Leaver · London : G. Allen & company, ltd. · leaf 356

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that we find in documents the expression to getimbrian achurch of stone—i.e., literally to make of wood a stone church. Nor was thisaltogether a misnomer, for the motif of the carpenter was adopted in the earlierattempts at masoncraft. Nottinghamshire Spires 275 square, in three diminishing stages,… … <£>OTHflM {STOJYEJ Fig. 4. The spire is square on plan to begin with, but quicklyassumes an octagonal form, the oblique faces being broughtout with a plain splay above the squinches, which consistof well-formed pointed arches of one order. There are twotiers of lucarnes or spire lights in…

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