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 59
ons of cast-iron tracery must be so reduced as to look painfully thin, devoid of shadow, and out of all proportion to the openings in which they are fixed. If, to overcome these objections, the castings are made of the same dimensions as stone, a great incon- sistency with respect to the material… … thing; once got, it must be worked out. cast-iron Muinon. stone Muiuon. Hence we see the same window in green-house, gate-house, church, and room ; the same strawberry-leaf, sometimes perpendicular, sometimes
Architecture, Gothic
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