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 110
is a mockery and thing of fashion, transient and perishable as the life of its possessor ; and if the structure be substantial enough to last his time, it soon after becomes the subject of some auctioneer's puff : its walls are covered with placards ; brokers divide the moveables ; the whole falls… … Old English Mansion. their scale and arrangement for the purposes of habitation. Each part of these buildings indicated its particular destination : the turreted gate-house and porter's lodging, the entrance porch, the high-crested roof and
Architecture, Gothic
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