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 15
PRINCIPLES OP POINTED OR CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. LECTURE I. … '2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential con- struction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural features are continually tacked on buildings with which they have no connection, merely…
Architecture, Gothic
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