The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 287
Fig. 3.—Doorway from Rothivell Church. the opening is much narrower in proportion to its height than wegenerally find it in other doorways of the same date; but the effect ofthe whole composition is not lessened, for the increased width is gained 36* 258 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL.… … by the columns and decorations, andin appearance, by the horizontalline which runs across the compo-sition in the shape of bands to theshafts. Yet, it seems to have es-caped the attention of many de-tractors from the merits of pointedarchitecture, that it is possible,under different circumstances,…
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