The Antiquarian And Architectural Year book for volume 1844
The Antiquarian And Architectural Year book for volume 1844
Ohio Dept of Finance
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Thus, architectm'e in its old age returned to the same form (the square tower and low-pointed roof) 158 NOTES ON SPIRES AND TOWERS. which had marked its infancy. But it never lost sight of this primitive feature — the tower with its pyramid — plainly showing that the architect would have raised the roof to the iiltitude and dignity of a sjjire if his funds would have permitted. This, then, is the history of the spire : first, it was the low roof of a square or round tower ; then, a lofty pyra- ...midal roof of stone; afterwards, the same roof improved by the taste and liberality of the fourteenth century, (the most magnificent in church decoration of all the ages of faith) until it arrived at that state of perfection beyond which it could proceed no fuither. It then rapidly declined to its former humble elevation and mere utility. It may be objected that there are undoubtedly many square towers throughout the country of eaidy date which are terminated by parapets. There can be no doubt enter- tained by any one viewing these towers, that they are unfinished and incomplete.
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