carpenter, smith, mason,what not—a common fellow, whose common every-day labour fashioned works which are to-day thewonder and despair of many a hard-working culti-vated architect. So you see, he adds, there wasmuch going on to make life endurable in those times.Not every day, you may be sure, was… … ENTRANCE TO THE CHAPTER-HOUSE, KIRKSTALL ABBEY. close correspondence of the contemporary work atKirkstall without adopting the untenable hypothesisof a common architect. It is certain, however, that theAbbeys of the twelfth century were not built by archi-tects, in our sense of the word, at all. As…
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