The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 286
the original mistake. In attention topyramidal outline, whether of masses or of parts, the Gothic archi-tects surpassed all rivals. In unity and sub-division of parts, thegroined vaultings and the window tracery of the best period, exemplifythose main principles of beauty, which govern the… … Fig. 2.—West Window of York Cathedral. (Fig. 2,) -will exemplify this. In this fine composition, no effect is 257 improperly lessened by the presence of any neighbouring part. Anarch of unomamented but elegant mouldings, placed beneath a richcrocketed canopy, circumscribes tracery of the most…
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