Neither at Chartres nor at Paris, nor at Laon or Amiens or Rheims or Bourges, will you see a central tower to compare with the enormous pile at Coutances.
St. Ouen carried forward its nave and raised a central tower.
After terminating a noble Flamboyant transept, the ambitious citizens were lured into the scheme of a central tower, when a church of such height should have at its crossing merely a slender spire.
The choir, central tower, transept and Lady chapel added to the nave--Restored in the 14th century after partial destruction by Edward I.
The choir is aisleless, and of a central tower, unskilfully restored in the reign of Henry VII.
Unlike so many of the early cathedrals, Exeter has no central tower, therefore its interior is famous for having the most uninterrupted vista of any cathedral in England, having no tower-piers to hinder the view.
Exeter has no central tower, but is unique in having one over each transept.
Hawarden Church has a central tower, surmounted by a short spire; it was restored by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1857.
The question of central tower or no central tower resolves itself into this; which is the greater merit in a cathedral or other great church--the highest amount of internal majesty, or the highest perfection of external outline?
It was of course designed, according to the usual English custom, for a central tower, though most likely Jocelin did not think of carrying it up so high as was afterwards done.
But no other church of equal internal height carries a central tower; no other church finished with a central tower can boast of the same internal height.
The plan of our cathedrals is usually cruciform, formed by a nave with aisles, north and south transepts, central tower, choir and presbytery.
Darlington, Durham, is an example: in this case there is a central tower.
This triple division is most frequently given in Norman buildings, by a central tower; with chancel and nave: we also find in this style a triple chancel arch, an arrangement never occurring at a later epoch.
So in Beckford, which has a central tower; and Uffington, Berks, a cross church.
The *Central Tower*, a splendid example of Decorated work, is of two stages above the roofs, with buttresses at the angles.
The aisleless Norman church, however, had a central tower to the east of the present chancel arch and transepts, as well as a chancel.
The cathedral has three towers, the northern Romanesque Tour de Hastings, a central tower of the 14th cent.
There is a central tower at the crossing of the transepts surmounted by a slate spire.
Somerton, has a cruciform church with a central tower, in the piers of which are large foliated squints.
It is a large cruciform structure with a central tower, having three windows in the belfry, and rather shallow buttresses.
Externally the church is a cruciform building with a central tower, characterized by two tiers of double windows and spired octagonal turrets at the corners.
The four arches which support the central tower are on a magnificent scale.
In the first place it is possible to get a continuous, uniform, stretch of vault, the roof being broken by no central tower.
The long line of the ridge of nave and choir, unbroken by a central tower, give it a unique distinction amongst English cathedrals.
There is a legend of the fall of a central tower at Christchurch Priory, and other warnings could be cited, such as Hereford, Selby, Peterborough, and Wells.
He reminded me of Jim Emett, the Mormon giant to whom difficulties and obstacles were but spurs to achievement.
With tingling nerves and strained ears we listened.
Gundulph's contribution is a spacious and venerable building in the form of a cross, with a central tower surmounted by a spire.
This arrangement of the towers did away with the necessity of either a central tower or lantern.
The Norman churches were mostly cruciform in plan, with a central tower.
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