A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. H. Parker · leaf 277
TOWER. 26.3 others are very plain, as at St. Michael’s, Oxford, and St. Benet’s, Cambridge : the tower of the church of Sompting, Sussex, which belongs to this style, terminates with a gable on each of the four sides, and is surmounted by a wooden sjDire, but whether or not this was the original… … Suflblk are of all periods : Little Saxham Church, Sufifolk. the only materials readily accessible being flints, and these not admitting of square corners, the towers were built round, and this practice is continued even to the present day. Norman towers are generally square, and of rather low…
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