Architectura canonica, or, Canons for church architecture : comprising observations thereon, plans, sketches, and illustrations ... with an epistle explanatory to Her Majesty's commissioners for building churches & chapels in Great Britain, Ireland and the colonies (1843)
Ignotus, Philecclesius · London : J.G.F. and J. Rivington · leaf 42
waySj as primitively, made of wood, and movable, to prevent a relapse into the errors which Christianity suffered from in imffating the stone and marble sacrificial altars adopted by the Pagans, but should at the same time be furnished uniformly with handsome velvet, silk, cloth, or coloured linen… … Or it may be of brass gilt, and attached by loops or button holes, which could be made of Birming- ham manufacture, at a cheap rate, and become an economical mode of ornamenting any future cloths in Churches and Chapels generally. Vide Plate XIII for Christian Symbols. The construction of the holy…
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