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 30
PRINCIPLES OF POINTED OR 14 answers a purpose, and therefore is not only allowable but indispen- sable in the pointed style ; but a projection down the sides of jamb, where it would be utterly useless, is never found among the monuments of antiquity. Examples of ancient Jamb Moulds. … Modern Jamb Mould, French Jamb Mould of the late arch are generally more sub- weak and wiry. styles, extravagantly hollowed. divided than those of the jamb. This is carrying out the same principle that may be observed in vegetation, where the solid trunk spreads and divides as it rises upwards. The…
Architecture, Gothic
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