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 76
38 PRINCIPLES OF POINTED OR The ancient French cities, Rouen, Beau- vais, Abbeville, Li- sieux, and others, were full of timber houses covered with carved beams and W — most varied orna- ^— ments ; but these are rapidly disappearing to make way for monotonous plaster n buildings, which are J… … concealed by mock cornices and pilasters, so that the houses of modern
Architecture, Gothic
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