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ESSAY. 133
required a canopy of the same form, which,
in ornamental work, as in the tabernacle of a
statue, mounted up ornamented with leaves
or crockets, and terminated in a trefoil. In
like manner, the buttresses that were neces-
sary for the strength of these buildings could
not finish, conformably to the general style of
the building, without tapering up into orna-
mented pinnacles. A pinnacle of a larger
size became a spire: accordingly such were
raised upon the square towers of former ages,
where, as at Salisbury, the funds of the church
and other circumstances would permit. Thus
we see how naturally the several gradations
of the pointed architecture arose one out of
another, as we learn from history was actually
the case, and how the intersecting of two cir-
cular arches in the church of St. Cross may
perhaps have produced Salisbury steeple.
required a canopy of the same form, which,
in ornamental work, as in the tabernacle of a
statue, mounted up ornamented with leaves
or crockets, and terminated in a trefoil. In
like manner, the buttresses that were neces-
sary for the strength of these buildings could
not finish, conformably to the general style of
the building, without tapering up into orna-
mented pinnacles. A pinnacle of a larger
size became a spire: accordingly such were
raised upon the square towers of former ages,
where, as at Salisbury, the funds of the church
and other circumstances would permit. Thus
we see how naturally the several gradations
of the pointed architecture arose one out of
another, as we learn from history was actually
the case, and how the intersecting of two cir-
cular arches in the church of St. Cross may
perhaps have produced Salisbury steeple.