Temples, ancient and modern : or, Notes on church architecture (1837)
Bardwell, Wm. (William) · London : Printed for the author · leaf 245
183 ANCIENT AND MODERN. ness and beauty of the pendant ornaments are at once apparent : but imagine the same attached to the gables of a construction of stone, as at Clegg Hall ; and what before was beauty, will … become deformity, and destroy that harmony of character by which architecture speaks to the intellect. The mother of Beauty is Proportion, and Simplicity its rule and governor. The simplex munditiis applies as well to archi- tectural beauty as to any other; and of this also we can say, with…
Church architecture · Temples
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