A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 320
he time. Itseems likely, indeed, that in places far away from the big towns,we ought to look to the local builder (mason or carpenter)rather than to any architect as the designer of buildings, by nomeans the least charming or important among the remains ofEnglish eighteenth-century architecture,… … CHAP, xiii] MASONRY 259 Something of the playfulness and poetry of the Elizabethansstill lingered in the country, and while Artari and Bagutti weremodelling conventionalities in stucco for Gibbs, the stone-masonat Dorchester was cutting on his tombstones the mallows andforget-me-nots of the meadows…
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