Lectures on church-building: with some practical remarks on bells and clocks (1856)
Grimthorpe, Edmund Beckett, Baron, 1816-1905 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 237
s. But in the acftual building all thofe fine bafes have fhrunk into nothing more than a fingle fmall fet-ofF, or rather into fomething lefs ; for the a&ual bafe is more than covered by the drip moulding on the fet-ofF immediately above it. In the original drawing too the fet-offs higher up were… … moil important buttrefles reduced fo much as to be very little more than fhamfet-offs, with no real proje&ion : which the eye firft condemns involuntarily, and then dete&s as an impofture. When it was found that they had been begun too fhallow, the only way to make the beft of a bad job would have…
Church architecture
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