Gedling: All Hallows' spire
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Gedling: All Hallows' spire
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 25 Sep 2013
When our art teacher, Mrs Macmillan, expatiated on The Parthenon and its columns, she was able to recommend a cycle or bus ride across the city to see entasis in action in the spire of Gedling church. ("The sides of the spire," wrote Nikolaus Pevsner, "actually have a slight, ingenious entasis. The effect is elegant, almost sensuous, in an Indian way, as it were.") The 180ft steeple (1300-20), the second tallest in Nottinghamshire, is seen from a pedestrian refuge on Arnold Lane on a gloomy September morning. For more about entasis, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis .
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Image Location
Latitude
52.976926
Longitude
-1.081084