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 70
VII. Of these we may say with Puff in the Critic, when he hears the three morning guns, “ Give these fellows a good idea, and they will work it to death.” A king post in the centre of the gable is good, because it is really useful, but at the lower extremities these excrescences cannot serve any… … niches, pinnacles, groining, tracery, and tabernacle work, after the manner of a chantry or chapel. Such fittings must be enormously expensive, and
Architecture, Gothic
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