The ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England
A survey of English church architecture published in 1848 by the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, issued in Oxford and London by J.H. Parker for antiquaries and architects studying parish churches. Its three plates are photographic-style views of a church interior with a brass-inlaid floor tomb and nave pews, a carved Gothic screen with cusped arches and foliage, and an exterior of a spired parish church with a tall broach spire and tower. A designer could take from them the crisp repeating rhythm of pointed Gothic arches, tracery and linear pew forms for ecclesiastical patterns.
