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 WRAXALL. 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,…
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 · Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723 · Architecture -- England History
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