The north-west tower is the only part of the old structure which survives.
Like the north-west tower at Cupar, it rises from the north and west walls of the north aisle, without buttresses to mark its outline or break the upright form of the walls.
It consists of an aisleless choir, a nave with two aisles, a north-west tower, and a chapter-house to the north of the choir.
Near the south-west tower is a fine red-brick house which doubtless remembers the Georges, or even Queen Anne.
A third font (modern) formerly stood in the north-west tower.
This bell was hung in the south-west tower, which thus came to be called the Jesus-Bell Tower.
So thoroughly was this done that the original stone facing only showed on the eastern side of the north-west tower.
In the south-west tower is also the new =Clock,= which was put up in 1890.
However, if there are cases in which a central tower was removed, and a west tower built, there are probably more in which a central tower was planned, and then abandoned.
Whether there ever was a central tower is, of course, an uncertain point; but the building of a west tower on a new site not many years after this reconstruction is a fact which makes the previous existence of a central tower probable.
The same year saw the beginning of the rebuilding of the south-west tower, and it was finished before 1246.
Harewell, John, Bishop, his share in building the South-west Tower, 122.
It is supposed he was a great benefactor and contributor toward the building of the North-west tower at the West ende of the Church, which his armes fixed upon divers places of the same doo partly shew.
Tell me first how on earth you can know that Dees is not only still a prisoner, but in the north-west tower?
As he reached the door-way leading out on to the battlements, he stood in the gloomy interior, and looked along the roof of the untenanted portion towards the north-west tower, wondering what Master Pawson was doing.
It now hangs in the south-west tower, and is used for striking the hour, and for tolling at the death of various great personages.
The other doorway, on the south side next the south-west tower, is far better preserved.
Beckington, by the way, showed a reckless disregard of the earlier work by carrying his cloister right up against the south-west tower, and completely concealing the beautiful arcading of that part.
The triforium, the upper storey of the western towers (the present north-west tower is a modern imitation of the south-west tower) and the lower storey of the central tower are mainly his work.
In the seventeenth-century the north-west tower fell, and the central tower was so insecure that the upper part of the spire was removed and rebuilt by Wren.
The present base, above the transept, is of a comparatively modern date, and altogether inferior to the work of the north-west tower.
Of these may be mentioned, the two elegant spires on the north and south towers of the West Front, and the great south-west tower of the church, which has since been materially diminished in height.
There was, perhaps little or no interval between the completion of the nave in the Circular style of architecture, and the erection of the north-west tower, in the Lancet, or first style of the Pointed.
Another tower had fallen besides the one to which attention has already been drawn; and as there appears to be nothing to show that this other was the north-west tower, we must see what evidence there is concerning the central tower.
In the case of the south-west tower we have already seen what was done, and obviously it was one of the two towers that had fallen.
The beginning of the turret stair in the South-West tower is exposed, but the basement of the house unfortunately occupies the lower part of the northern one.
At the foot of the south-west tower-pier are some decayed but interesting ancient tiles.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "west tower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
