As we look skyward, we notice that sitting atop the tower
is a corona or crown of tracery.
Four-sided and representing bounded space, albeit sacred
space, the corona represents the New Jerusalem, the walled Heavenly
City. While the solid trefoils over the vestibule demonstrate the divine
made human, the Heavenly City resting atop the tower represents the earthly
transported into the spiritual. There, walls keep their battlement shapes,
but inside the battlements are quatrefoils only now carved out and hollow,
filled only with sky. The heavenly city contains the forms of this world
yet made over, spiritualized, for eternity. The solid forms or trefoils
of the first level have been bodily resurrected yet made over.
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Note the similar tracery of London's St. Sepulcre Without Newgate with
its hollow quatrefoil framed by a square placed within the battlement.
The televison antenna is not, as far as we know, medieval. |
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