The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture : set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott (1895)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852 · Edinburgh : J. Grant · leaf 107
ls of the edifice are multiplied with the increased scale of the budding : in classic architecture they are only magnified. To explain this more fully, if the pointed architects had a buttress and pin- nacle to erect against some vast structure, such as the Cathedral of Cologne or Amiens, they did… … 10 A pillar in classic architecture is a mere cylinder, of large or small diameter. In the pointed style a pillar is subdivided into shafts, which increase in number with its size, and form beautiful clusters.
Architecture, Gothic
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