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 51
23 CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. it was not unusual to work the finer parts in brass for relief of colour and richness of effect. These form a striking contrast with the inconsistencies of modern grates, which are not unfrequently made to represent diminutive fronts of castellated or ecclesiastical… … New Sheffield pattern for a modern Castellated Grate. The fender is a sort of embattled parapet, with a lodge-gate at each end ; the end of the poker is a sharp pointed finial ; and at the summit of the tongs is a saint. It is impossible to enumerate half the absurdities of modern metal-workers ;…
Architecture, Gothic
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