Quarterly papers on architecture
A London architectural periodical issued in 1844 by John Weale, a publisher of technical building books, for architects, craftsmen and students of medieval design. Its plates are measured drawings of Gothic work: a screen with pinnacled tracery and figured panels, carved wooden stalls shown in perspective, a longitudinal section through a church with lancet windows, and a ribbed timber roof of Khapton church in Norfolk. A designer could take from them the crisp linear vocabulary of cusped tracery, gabled canopies and ribbed vaults, drawn in clean outline with a faint wash for shading.
