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 93
CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. 47 I will now give the following distinct reasons why the architecture of the Greek temples cannot be introduced or imitated with propriety by Christians. 1. These temples were erected for an idolatrous worship, and were suited only for the idolatrous rites which were… … outlay without any utility. If, on the other hand, you strip a Greek temple of its external peristyle, and build your external walls in the place of the pillars, you entirely destroy the most beautiful feature of the architecture, and the building becomes a miserable departure from the style it…
Architecture, Gothic
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