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 334
case ofan iron capital to which beaten metal issubsequently attached, as at the OxfordMuseum, we feel that the ornaments ofleaves and flowers, however excellent inthemselves, are mere additions having nosort of relation to the constructive featurewhich they adorn and claiming a raisondetre of… … -V~_T. 286 Carved Capitals in the Museum. work) but because they are confessedly applied decorations to a featurewhose very form is regulated bv practical considerations. Objectionsof an analogous kind might be raised to the constructive arches formedof iron rods in the same quadrangle. Iron rods…
Gothic revival (Architecture) · Architecture
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