In the year 1830 Canon Russell presented a sum of money to the Dean and Chapter to build four appropriate pinnacles at the angles.
The old spire was taken down from the central tower, and in order to give it apparent height the roofs of both nave and choir were lowered in pitch, its parapet was raised, and some pinnacles were added.
The spires of the pagodas and the pinnacles and roofs of the choungs generally rise up somewhere in the picture, and in the evening, when the whole village comes down to the water, the scene is charming.
Behind rise red walls, with here and there quaint little maroon-coloured towers, allpinnacles and angles, showing up like fretwork against the sky.
They were unrecognised, now, save by Him from whom they drew their sovereignty--pinnacles clustering and hanging from a dome, from which the walls had been withdrawn.
We are above all pinnacles that we have ever gazed at in dreams.
Certainly Mandaroon was beautiful with her white pinnacles peering over her ruddy walls and the green of her copper roofs.
Now night was rolling up from the East and North, and only the pinnacles of the towers of Perdóndaris still took the fallen sunlight.
Theophilus is especially wonderful on the fifth and sixth days of the moon, when the sun climbs its shining pinnacles and slowly discloses the tremendous chasm that lies within its circles of terrible precipices.
It is a majestic temple of one stone, hewn from the living rock, and adorned with spires and pinnacles in regular cathedral style.
I therefore take those pinnacles to be types of those lofty airy notions with which some men delight themselves, while they hover, like birds, above the solid and godly truths of Christ.
There were also several pinnacles belonging to the temple.
These pinnacles stood on the top aloft in the air, and were sharp, and so difficult to stand upon: what men say of their number and length I wave, and come directly to their signification.
From the ferryboat on the dull-green bosom of the river he first renewed his memory of the spectral and forbidding abysses and pinnacles of New York.
High above us rise the pinnacles of the Cathedral, while on the topmost point of its Gothic spire the gilded statue of St. Michael seems to shout his hosannas upwards far towards the blue of heaven.
Yonder is Chenonceaux with its fantastic pinnacles and odd construction spanning the river.
It consists of a square tower forty feet in width, having great and small turrets with pinnacles at the angles and center of each front tower.
The many towers and pinnacles of Copenhagen, with the golden dome of the Marble Church, flash a welcome as we steam into the magnificent harbour of this singularly well-favoured city.
The castle, with its many towers andpinnacles reflected in still waters, stands in the middle of a lake.
The exterior of the Salle des Procureurs is comparatively simple: the most highly decorated part of it is the gable, which is flanked by two octangular turrets, ornamented with crocketed pinnaclesand flying buttresses.
The architecture of this tower may almost be regarded as the perfection of what has been called the decorated English style: it is copiously enriched with pinnacles and statues, and terminates in a beautiful octagonal crown of open stone-work.
There are no spires, but pinnacles and statues, and all the rich detail of Gothic architecture, the whole of a venerable gray line.
On either side are steep slopes clothed with trees, and broken here and there by bold, outstanding pinnacles of rock.
It was called the House of the Seven Towers, from the seven pinnacles which surmounted it; and at the back there was a large garden, which extended to the canal and Quai des Marbriers.
You see the pinnacles of its temple two miles northward.
Jagged peaks they were, half-clothed, at times, with clouds, their ragged rocky pinnacles showing black in contrast to the dazzling fields of snow which stretched away below us as in some Arctic scene.
Beyond the first range of hills, you descry the sharp pinnacles of the interior; and among these, the same silent Marling-spike which we so often admired from the other side of the island.
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