. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 256 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [August, lates. Three great niches leading into the church, the centre one above forty feet wide, were adorned with the statues of the apostles and holy men, who 'marshal us the way we should go;' in front, the ge- nealogy of Christ, the final judgment, the history of the Patriarchs &; Farther it is said, that " the same want of cultivated judgment, •which is apparent in the asthetical of the arts of the middle ag
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 256 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [August, lates. Three great niches leading into the church, the centre one above forty feet wide, were adorned with the statues of the apostles and holy men, who 'marshal us the way we should go;' in front, the ge- nealogy of Christ, the final judgment, the history of the Patriarchs &; Farther it is said, that " the same want of cultivated judgment, •which is apparent in the asthetical of the arts of the middle ages, is traced also in the imperfection of their statics and stereotomy, in which again solidity is sacrificed to ; That as "the figure of the cross" was "indispensable," though "the arches of the nave, formed their abutment abundautly in the western termination, which was commonly fortified by prominent buttresses, no such abutment existed at their eastern termination towards the lofty pillars of the ; Consequently, that " the smallest failure of foundation or superstructure, threw so much weight against these pillars as to occasion them to bend," and therefore, the weighting of the pillars with a tower or spire being insufficient, " the last disfiguring remedy, the construction of a reversed arch between them, was employed," (vide section of Wells Cathedral.) Further, that we " crudely adopt the niched and canopied architecture of a religion, peopled with images of saints and martyrs, sibyls, angels and holy meD, to a Pro- testant religion, which, admitting none of these, must leave the niches and the canopies tenantUss, like well-gilt frames adorning an apartment, the pictures being omitted;—the pride and pomp of heraldry, armo- rial shields and crests, to an age in which chivalry is exploded and quarterings have dwindled to ; That "slighting those excellencies of sc
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