A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 316
eneral before the middle of the seventeenth century, and solong as this feeling w^as guided by master minds, such as InigoJones and Wren, its influence on English architecture was en-tirely good, and it succeeded in restoring to it something of thereasonableness of the older tradition. For the… … ABINGDON TOWN HALL. 256 THE TRADES [chap, xiii in England, and the mason himself, if no longer allowed todesign as in the days of Symons and Wigg, gained in technicalskill by being limited to the actual handiwork of masonry.When Wren began to practise there were already to his handsmasons trained…
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