the most Temple church offers a rude approach, viz., a dodecagon with its covering support-ed by six pillars and eighteen arches, all of equal span, dividing the whole into acentral hexagon, surrounded by six square and six triangular compartments, allequilateral, and making the thirty lines… … OF ARCHITECTURE. 241 pure and consistent. It is not confined to England, butnearly so ; its only continental localities being Brittany andthe western part of Normandy. All provinces further eastexhibit various kinds of Early Pointed, different from ours ;and some of which were formerly supposed to…
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