Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 307
by instinct. As I have said on other occa-sions, a Mediaeval barn is as good and as true in itsarchitecture as a cathedral ; both are essentially in thesame style, yet one is as obviously a barn and as abso-lutely subservient to the requirements of a barn, as theother is a church. One has no… … Fig. 153.—Warehouses at Nuremburg. at Nuremburg—one for exhibiting manufactures, theother for stowing away goods. The first is, internally,a continuous room or gallery some 30 or 40 feet wide,and (measuring along its several ranges) about 600 or700 feet long; its entire sides occupied by…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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