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 94
PRINCIPLES OF POINTED OR 48 temple, is a most glaring absurdity ; nor is a tower of this description, starting out of nothing at the top of a portico, any better. Figs. 1 and 2. … Figure Figure 4. Our northern climate requires an acute pitch of roof to prevent the accumulation of snow and to resist weather.5 The Greeks, whose climate is the reverse of ours, had their roofs and pediments exceedingly flat ; nor could they be raised to our proper pitch with- out violating the…
Architecture, Gothic
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