tower-cornice

Updated: January 24, 2026

This is called the broach; and it is the only form thus far spoken of wherein the tapering surfaces rise directly from the tower-cornice, without mutilating the tower or violating the pure outlines of the spire. The heavenward aspiration, as it were, ascends without effort from the solidity of the tower.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860