The bulletin

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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
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Vol. 70 No. 3621 (6 Jul 1949)
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The Bulletin  

“The Bull *.!. ” VoL 70-No. 3621  

Wednesday, July 6, 1949  

Price 6d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

Seppels  

is known the world  

over as the town of the “Crooked  

Spire,” unique medieval structure  

which is regarded as national heirloom.  

It surmounts the Church of St. Mary and  

All Saints, the parish church of Chester-  

field, and for six hundred years this  

remarkable structure has pointed uncer-  

tainly towards the heavens, arousing in-  

terest and curiosity in each succeeding  

generation.  

The spire, which dates from 1375, is  

out of perpendicular, leaning in three  

directions at once—seven feet six inches  

to the south, seven feet ten inches to the  

south-west and three feet two inches to  

the west, and these increasing deflections  

since 1818 have caused concern for the  

safety of the building.  

Among the curious legends which  

have originated around the cause of these  

contortions is the story which asserts that  

Lucifer, who was flying from Notting-  

ham to Sheffield, alighted for moment  

on the top of the spire. At that moment  

waft of incense from below so irritated  

him that he gave violent sneeze—so  

great that he twisted the whole spire.  

Yet another story concerns the fact that  

on one occasion virtuous maiden of  

such beauty entered the church that the  

spire bowed in admiration and could not  

regain its normal position.  

It is asserted, however, that it was the  

aim of the designers to build spire with  

twist at the base which would gradually  

modulate so as to finish perpendicular.  

The twist, therefore, is by design, but  

the contortion is the result of accident,  

faulty design and the warping of timber  

due to the unseasoned wood used and  

to the action of the sun on the leaden  

covering of the exterior. This leadwork,  

which is arranged in herring-bone  

fashion, is estimated to weigh 32 tons.  

Much damage to the fabric of the spire  

has been caused by the destructive Death  

Watch beetle, whose activities have been  

curbed by restoration work,carried out  

periodically.  

The spire, which is 230 feet high, is  

not secured to the top of the tower, but  

relies for its stability on its low centre of  

gravity and on the flexibility of the struc-  

ture, which, whip-like, bends to the  

fiercest gales, which it has withstood for  

many generations.  

RENOWED FOR ITS CROOKED SPIRE, CHESTERFIELD'S PARISH CHURCH  

ROYAL  

PUR LE PARA  

APRODUCT OF  

THE  

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HOUSE OF SEPPELT  

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