Inigo Jones and Wren; or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England (1893)
Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911 · New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 44
ut it looks as if itcould not stand an hour. There is an enormous and weightycanopy, in gables, surmounted by metal roofing, carrying a loftybronze spire ending in an immense gilt cross. This canopy issupported on four attenuated columns, made of granite in twocolours, as light and slender as if… … SOUTH WR-VXALL. The Decay of Gothic 27 years ; as long, in fact, as disintegration from damp or anyother cause does not affect the iron. Thus, then, the modernGothic architect conceals his construction, builds a giganticsham, and forgetting that, as I have said, the true Gothic archnever slept,…
