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 39
CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. 19 In the early buildings the work was carried up in regular beds : there were as many joints in a detached pillar as in the wall, and equal space was occupied by the mortar in every part of the building. The joints of stone tracery should always be cut to the centre of the… … of stone tracery, the work must be devoid of the neces- 19 ♦3? sary strength. Any of the great circular or mullioned windows of the ancient cathedrals will fully illustrate this principle. Images in these northern countries were, with some very few excep- tions, placed in niches under canopies.…
Architecture, Gothic
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