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 13
PRINCIPLE S OF POINTED OR CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. LECTURE I. … that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural features are continually tacked on buildings with which they have no connexion, merely for the…
Architecture, Gothic
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