The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1845)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · Edinburgh, London, Pub. for the author by W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 18
thedrals. To the artist and to all lovers of the picturesque, the lower Church, in its variations of columnarand vaulting process, presents an interminable field for consideration. Hickman, in his Essay onGothic Architecture, states that Glasgow had not been studied as it ought to be, and we… … 9 THE CATHEDRAL OF GLASGOW. of support to the upper Church, are not the details of the gloomy vault. It is self-evident that theywere intended to be seen, as modern improvement exhibits; and here the hand of restoration, whichhas long been busy at Glasgow, has our unqualified admiration. But when…
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