Staged Timber Spires in Carolingian North-East France and Late Anglo-Saxon England
Richard Gem
Abstract The masonry buildings of the Carolingian period have long been recognised as constituting a definitive stage in development West European architecture. Some great churches this also had elaborate timber constructions associated with them, yet significance these has never fully assessed. This paper examines evidence for key group North-East France and suggests that their spires formed coherent which may be regarded an important phenomenon architecture renaissance. These origin Late Antique Merovingian architecture; they seem to role later medieval spires. In second part paper, is examined Anglo-Saxon England, whether were influenced by examples.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association