Essays on Gothic Architecture
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ISBN13: 9781150801198
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...of York 1070--Walcner bishop of Durham 1071--Walkeline of Winchester 1070--Remigius of Lincoln 107()--all of them foreigners, did the like in their several sees; and so of the rest. b "Anglia facta est exterorum habitatio, et alienigenaruin dominatio; nulfus hodie Anglus dux, vel pontifex, vel abbas; advena; quique divitias et viscera corrodunt Angliae; nee spes ulla est iiuiendaj miseriae." Malmesb. de Reg. Aiigl. p. 93. Some curious observations on the difference between the Norman style of building used in the Conquerors reign and that in use under Henry II. may be met with in the account given by Gervase, a monk of Canterbury, of the fire that happened there A. D. 1174, and burnt the choir, and of the repairing of the same. X. Scriptores, col. 1302. lin. 43, 44, &c. It cannot be expected we should be able to enumerate all the decorations they made use of, for they designed variety in the choice of them; but a judicious antiquarian who has made the prevailing modes of architecture in distant times his study, will be able to form very probable conjectures concerning the age of most of these ancient structures; the alterations that have been made in them since their first erection will often discover themselves to his eye. Perhaps the most usual change he will find in them is in the form of the windows; for in many of our oldest churches, I mean such as were built within the first age after the Conquest, the windows, which were originally round-headed, have since been altered for others 36 of a more modern date, with pointed arches. Instances of this kind are numerous, and may often be discovered, by examining the courses of the stone-work about them; unless the outward face of the building was new-cased at the time of...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150801198 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150801190 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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