10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPIRELESS»
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spireless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spireless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Century: A Popular Quarterly
A new shrine, like the spireless and uninspiring country churches to be found
throughout all Cuba, was erected for the Virgin and her pilgrims farther down the
valley. The Archbishop of Santiago— for the old Eastern city still remains the ...
A new shrine, like the spireless and uninspiring country churches to be found
throughout all Cuba, was erected for the Virgin and her pilgrims farther down the
valley. The Archbishop of Santiago — for the old Eastern city still remains the ...
Making of America Project, 1920
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New Hampshire: A Guide to the Granite State
At 5.6 m. on this road is the Fremont M eeting—H ouse (L), one of the three
square, spireless churches in this section of the State, the other two being at
Danville and Sandown. Erected in 1800, it has been preserved in its original form
, both ...
Best Books on, Federal Writers' Project, 1938
4
The Great Church Towers of England: Chiefly of the ...
EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRELESS TOWER The spireless towers of the
Perpendicular period were generally finished with a nearly flat roof covered with
lead. But this form of roof was a comparatively late feature: in earlier times all
towers were ...
For it is at the same time the source of the typical 'Somerset Tower', of the 'long
panel' motive, and of the whole later concept of the spireless tower throughout
this country. Wynford himself had designed a spired bell-tower for Winchester ...
Ancient Monuments Society, 1982
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Local style in English architecture: an enquiry into its ...
SPIRELESS TOWERS 9? (37); D. A polygon rising as a distinct "lantern" as we
call it1 behind the parapet of the square lower part as at Boston, or without
parapet as at Barnack (35). The central tower of Ely belongs to two classes.
Probably ...
Thomas Dinham Atkinson, 1947
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Peters Letters to His Kinsfolk, 3
... which are, it may be supposed, the natural product of such a soil, and we even
conceive to ourselves, with a sympathetic liveliness of imagination, the shapeless
, coach-roofed, spireless meeting-house, which they have erected, or may even ...
8
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
... troubled waters rise up to the very walls of the house, it is yet as dry as if it had
been built on the top 0. Arthur's Seat. The kirk itself is a lowly, spireless, stone-
roofed fabric, simple and unostentations in its appearance, but well befitting its ...
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1834
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The Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German ...
In the market square stood the roofless, spireless church. 1 A German Field
Artillery regiment in 1914 had two battalions, subdivided into three batteries each
of three sections of two guns. And as I passed on through this devastated village,
...
10
A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections
The church itself—I speak of it as it then was, before the improvements made by
the present rector— A little spireless fane, Just seen above the woody lane,°
might have appeared mean and uninteresting to an ordinary observer; but the
adept ...
James Edward Austen-Leigh, Kathryn Sutherland, 2002
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPIRELESS»
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spireless is used in the context of the following news items.
History of Leicester Castle
The newly-spireless Church of St Mary de Castro was built in 1107 and still has part of the original nave and north wall of the chancel. More was added to the ... «Leicester Mercury, Feb 15»
Castle View: A new lease of life for Leicester's hidden gem?
Take the newly-spireless Church of St Mary de Castro. Built in 1107, it was where Chaucer, the father of English literature, tied the knot. In 1426, it witnessed the ... «Leicester Mercury, Jan 15»
World's tallest residential building to be built in Manhattan
The spireless height will make Nordstrom the highest residential building on the planet, higher than buildings such as Dubai's Princess Tower (424 metres), ... «CITY A.M., Jul 14»
Shakespeare: Staging the World, British Museum, London
While the names are similar, they evoke different architecture: St Paul's is in its pre-Wren incarnation and spireless, and London Bridge, groaning under a cluster ... «The Independent, Aug 12»
An Interior of Spiritual and Artistic Subtlety
Rothko favored a spireless octagonal chapel for the new building, simpler than Johnson's proposal. The de Menils sided with the artist. Finally, the Houston ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 11»
Perishing or Jovially Surviving in Transylvania
The sixteenth century church is a spireless hall, somehow unusual for the area. The powerful defence wall has a tall, slender tower, which from the distance ... «Balkan Travellers, Feb 08»
