The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture : set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott (1853)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 15
CHEISTIAN AECHITECTTJEE. the support of arched ribs ; the older architects contented themselves with enriching- it with fohag-e or fig-ures, but those of the later styles allowed … Pendant. four or iive feet of unnecessary stone to hang down into the church, and from it to branch other ribs upwards. This is at most an ing-enious trick, and quite unworthy of the severity of Pointed or Christian architecture.' ' This is one among many other symptoms of decline apparent in the…
Architecture, Gothic
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