. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEAR I92O. have towers so placed, and 7 of these are in they were built away from the church itself hascaused much discussion, without, I believe, any satisfac-tory solution being arrived at. The lower part of thetower was built c. 1300 and is of very plain design. Itwas surmounted by a shingle spire. In 1733 this wasremoved, the tower raised one storey and the presentgraceful spire erected (Plate V). The height of the tower is now 76 feet; spire .127 feet;total 203 feet, making the
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEAR I92O. have towers so placed, and 7 of these are in they were built away from the church itself hascaused much discussion, without, I believe, any satisfac-tory solution being arrived at. The lower part of thetower was built c. 1300 and is of very plain design. Itwas surmounted by a shingle spire. In 1733 this wasremoved, the tower raised one storey and the presentgraceful spire erected (Plate V). The height of the tower is now 76 feet; spire .127 feet;total 203 feet, making the spire to be three-fifths of thetotal elevation. The usual rule in England is for thetower to be only rather less in height than the spire. I lay no claim to any personal originality for anyremarks I have made. If there be suggestions whichare in any sense new, I am indebted for them to Bond, who during courses of Oxford extensionlectures on architecture here spent many days with mein this church ; and I have done my best to incorporatehis views in my 69 GLOUCESTERSHIRE FONTS.(c) Fifteenth Century. By Alfred C. Fryer, , IN our two previous papers we examined twenty Per-pendicular fonts 1 and now we must consider eighteenmore that were sculptured during the fifteenth centuryin Gloucestershire. Again we shall find that the octagonalform had become the rule, experiments were rarely made,and those responsible for the erection of fonts in parishchurches were content to accept the pattern that at thisperiod had become universal. One of the most beautiful of these fifteenth centuryfonts is the one at Upper Slaughter (PI. VII). It is solarge that it may have been a Norman tub-shaped bowlwhich has been cut down into an octagonal form, for itmeasures across the top some three feet and the depthof the basin is over one and a half feet. Four faces areadorned with quatrefoils having roses as centres and twotrefoil-headed niches below, and four with large trefo
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