The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott (1841)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852 · London, J. Weale · leaf 104
.54 of all that I have been describing. In them we look in vain for the solemn quadrangle, the studious cloister, the turreted gate-house, the noble refectory with its oak-beamed roof, the mullioned windows and pinnacled parapet, and lofty tower of the church : not a ghost of these venerable… … went forth from the Catholic structures of Oxford and Winchester ! We cannot sufficiently admire our English universities ; there is nothing like them existing on the continent, notwithstanding the miserable additions and modernizations which have so greatly disfigured the ancient buildings. There…
Architecture, Gothic
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