The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 177
ircular channel is formedwith carefully walled stone ;on this the ends of the slatesrested, and instead of havinglead, now usually employed,or plaster, to prevent thewater from getting betweenthe wall and the end of theabutting roof, the water wasallowed to find its way intothe channel, or gutter,… … Fig. 17.—Gable stone channel. which SO strongly displays the absence of right feeling of construction, viz., a very common practice of constructing Gothicdetails, more particularly mullioned windows in wood ; and sopurely does this practice display the meagre imitation of the modelscf Gothic…
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