The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 285
age to the pre-sumed disadvantage of the church in other respects.3 In the smallerGothic churches, (ricfeFig. 1.) the whole length of the nave and chancelis frequently but twice the width of the nave and ailes, so that that partwestward of the rood-screen, and in, or immediately adjoining which,all… … Fig. 1.—Plan of Haddenham Church, Backs. That fine effect of length in the nave of the Gothic cathedral, like allbeautiful effects in art, is due to an impression, produced upon themind by skilful proportion and arrangement, rather than to actualdimensions upon the ground plan. The length of the…
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