A history of the Gothic revival : an attempt to show how the taste for mediæval architecture, which lingered in England during the two last centuries, has since been encouraged and developed (1872)
Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906 · London : Longmans, Green, and Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Co. · leaf 301
reaped morelaurels by the erection of St. Matthias, at Stoke Newington, where thec saddle-back roof of the square tower was a novelty in ecclesiasticaldesign. The same feature was introduced over the belfry of St. Albans,Holborn, one of the most perfect and interesting examples of thearchitects… … Belfry of S. A/bans Church, London. II. ButterMd, Architect, 1858. SI. Albans C liurch, Holborn. 257 that he aims at originality not only in the form but in the relative pro-portion of parts. Thus in St. Albans the first thing that strikes one onentering is the extreme width of the nave as compared…
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