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 116
PRINCIPLES OF POINTED OR 66 height and scale conveyed by many old Catholic buildings, which are not in reality half the size of some of their more modern and semi-pagan rivals at Rome. … Illustration of the different effects of scale produced by large or small statues in the same space. In general our English churches are deficient in internal height ; not that our national style of Christian art does not possess some fine speci- mens of this important feature, as in the glorious…
Architecture, Gothic
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