Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Legend, Precepts and Principles

2. Spiritual Principles: Place, Times and Form

3. Number, Measure and Harmony

4. The Sacred Art of Geometry in Action

5. Practical Geometry Techniques

6. Symbols and Emblemata

7. Towers and Steeples

8. Masterworks of a Superior Order

Postscript

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Glossary of technical terms

Appendix 2: A chronology of London classical church building

Appendix 3: London multi-stage steeples completion dates

About the Author

Nigel Campbell Pennick (born 1946 in Guildford, Surrey, England) is a marine biologist, who has also published on occultism, magic, natural magic, divination, subterranea, rural folk customs, traditional performance and Celtic art as well as runosophy.

He is a writer on marine species as well as an occultist and geomancer. He also writes on European arts and crafts, buildings, landscape and spiritual traditions. He has written several booklets on the history of urban transport in Cambridge and London. He is best known for his research on geomancy, labyrinths, sacred geometry, the spiritual arts and crafts, esoteric alphabets and Germanic runic studies.