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 24
iling ; the form of which is a sort of contradiction to the height at which it is commenced. I do not make this observation by way of disparaging the merits of this stupendous building, but merely to show the early decay of the true principles of pointed architecture which may be traced even in… … Bulbous Covering or Steeple, Spiral Covering or Steeple, but, as will be perceived by the an- in the Christian style. in the debased style.
Architecture, Gothic
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