CHURCH OF ST. MARY, REDCL1FFE, BRISTOL. 

 VIEW FROM THE SOUTH-EAST, WITH THE SPIRE, 



AS PROPOSED TO BK RESTORED. 



The general style of architecture and the ornamental details of the church ahove indicated are replete with beauty, and present to the 

 eye ef the tasteful and intelligent observer a series of exquisite subjects for study and contemplation as viewed from different points. The 

 view from the south-east, as shown in the annexed woodcut, represents the tall and narrow south transept, with its aisles, windows, highly 

 enriched flying and attached buttresses, perforated parapets, and purfled pinnacles ; the south porch, of two stories, and newly designed 

 staircase turret, the flying buttresses and clerestory windows of the nave, with the bold crocketed pinnacle, which surmounts the stairs at 

 the south-west angle ; rising above the west end of the northern aisle are seen the upper or belfry story of the noble tower, with its 

 richly adorned panels, boss-enriched mouldings, and perforated parapet ; the bold and finely proportioned octagonal pinnacles at the 

 angles of the tower ; and rising from among them the lofty graceful spire, crowning and adorning the whole. Of this last splendid and 

 heaven-pointing architectural member of a Christian edifice, there are numerous examples both in England and on the Continent, which 

 are now admired as they deserve to be admired; but, however meritorious and beautiful may be the spires of Strasburg, Salisbury. 

 Freyburg, Lichfield, Norwich, Louth, or others of less note, Redcliffe spire, in form and detail, as indicated by its existing portion,' and 

 as it is susceptible of being rendered, with the tower, its legitimate base, may challenge a comparison with them all. 



' VI i e " existing portion" of the spire is not more than one-fifth of the whole height, or up to the first enriched band. 



