Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 212
!S— The Tower 183 An interesting adjunct of the church was the tower. Variouswere the uses to which the tower was put, and it is uncertainwhich use may have constituted the original or chief sugges-tion for its employment. It was only in Syria that towerswere employed in pairs and brought into… … Fig. 68. — Memorial church of S. Simon Stylites, Kalat-Seman, Syria. danger of sudden attack. In the TVest only a solitary towerwas used, and it was never a part of the architectural scheme.The towers were either square or round in plan, and were di-vided into about a half-dozen low stories. The…
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