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 28
PEINCIPLES OP POINTED OR 18 Not only are the stones which are used in the ancient building's exceeding-ly small, but they are also very irregular in size^ and for the same reason as I have before mentioned, that the jointing- mig-ht not appea?- a regular feature, and by its lines interfere with… … Images in these northern countries were, with some very feAV excep- tions, placed in niches under canopies. This is really necessary to pre- serve the sculpture from the injuries of weather, and it is much more consistent than leaving the venerable image of a saintly or royal per- sonage exposed to…
Architecture, Gothic
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