A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 318
raditional sense of classical detail once pos-sessed by any well-trained mason in England. Thus the mason had lost the knowledge of his craft andcome to be entirely dependent on the directions of architects;and the mason-architect of the seventeenth century had finallydisappeared. Grumbold at… … ST. GEORGE S, GREAT YARMOUTH.S 258 THE TRADES [chap, xiii mason, was employed to design and carry out the beautifulriver buildings at Clare. In 1685 he was being paid at the rateof 20s. a week for his designs and his work as master mason,the college finding all materials; and about the same time…
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