A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 312
most peculiar to this part of England, and derived not fromthe deliberate designs of architects, but from the more or lessunconscious initiative of local masons. I give an instance of adoorhead from Corsham; simple as it is, this is not based onany precedent, but is clearly the result of this… … 252 THE TRADES [chap, xiii tradition prevailed, builders should have abandoned it in favourof prevailing fashions of detail which they probably misunder-stood, and certainly habitually misapplied. This fact is veryclearly seen in modern buildings in Yorkshire, where the lessimportant stone…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture
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