From the north west #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset for #TowerTuesday
Small polygonal stair turret with single light #TinyWindow to each stage. Both with monolithic heads. The upper light is round headed the lower, square #NorthStokeTower Part IV of IV #TinyWindowTuesday
From the east #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset for #TowerTuesday
The Norman origin of the tower is supported by the dressing and fit of the masonry and the pilaster buttresses. Two small round headed Norman-style lights can also be seen from the east #NorthStokeTower Part III of IV
There's only one view of #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset from the west and it's the #MouseEyeView, unless you want to step back and fall ten feet into a field. If the tower is Norman then west window, door, parapet and pinnacles were added much later #NorthStokeTower Part II of IV
From south #StMartinNorthStoke #Somerset for #TowerTuesday
Broad, squat 2-stage tower with string courses, clasping pilaster buttresses, parapet and crocketed pinnacles. Taken to be Norman dating to late C12 #NorthStokeTower Part I of IV
