Illustrations of the architectural ornaments and embellishments and painted glass of the Temple Church London
A lithographed plate book of 1845 published in London by John Weale, with drawings by W. R. H. Essex and Sydney Smike, documenting the architectural ornament and painted glass of the Temple Church for architects and craftsmen. The first picture is a bright chromolithographed panel of interlaced scrollwork with heraldic shields, the second shows two pointed arches with colourful stencilled patterns and small coats of arms, and the third is a set of black-and-white column capitals and bases. A designer could take from them the dense medieval strapwork, the tight palette of red, blue, green and gold, and the clear profile drawings of Gothic stone bases and capitals.
