Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 203
at York. At a later period excess of tracery became thegreat vice of the style, but while kept within bounds,it unquestionably was a great element to its perfection;and though it must always be remembered that abuilding of any amount of beauty and dignity can bedesigned without it, it would be… … Figs. 103, 104, 105, 106, 107.—Base moulds of Buildings. One feature in which the English works of thisperiod appear to me to be peculiarly excellent is thebase moulds ; I do not mean of columns, but of thebuilding itself. I have never seen any in France toequal many of our own in the quality of…
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