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 456
hat may be called the common-sense treatmentof Gothic. There is a flying buttress on the south side of the chancel, where itis required to resist the thrust of the chancel roof. But the plan ofthe church renders this unnecessary on the north side, where the walls ofthe sacristy afford sufficient… … ^ ■^ 30 ^ 00 ^s ^ ^ V o French and English Types. 367 though by no means an unpicturesque object, is unmistakably designedto carry off smoke and nothing else. Now, if this church had beenplanned in the early days of the Revival, the architects aim would havebeen to secure uniformity, and what was…
Gothic revival (Architecture) · Architecture
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