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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 23

An illustration from The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott, 1841, leaf 23 — rom the severe and consistent principles I have been describing. Henry the Seventh's Chapel at Westminster is justly considered one of the most wonderful examples of ingenious construction and elaborate fan groining in the world, but at the same time it exhibits the commencement of the bad taste,… … Pendant. the support of arched ribs ; the older architects contented themselves with enriching it with foliage or figures, but those of the later styles allowed four or five feet of unnecessary stone to hang down into the church, and from it to branch other ribs upwards. This is at most an…

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