. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. STJXIO-V CIURCH, NORTHAMPTCNilJIRE. FONT, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Among the various improvements made in the Abbey by the Dean and the architect, Mr. G. G. Scott, that of opening up a view of the west window of the south aisle and the font by the removal i)f the modern monument standing under the side arch of the south-west tower, although not the greatest, is by no means the least effective,—the long perspective view down this most exposed iiisle being now seen in its full extent
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. STJXIO-V CIURCH, NORTHAMPTCNilJIRE. FONT, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Among the various improvements made in the Abbey by the Dean and the architect, Mr. G. G. Scott, that of opening up a view of the west window of the south aisle and the font by the removal i)f the modern monument standing under the side arch of the south-west tower, although not the greatest, is by no means the least effective,—the long perspective view down this most exposed iiisle being now seen in its full extent. A fine screen, of Perpen- dicular date, was found behind, and totally obscured by the monu- ment now removed. In the space under this tower the fent was placed, and seems to have been, from its out-of-the-way position, quite overlooked,—this being, as far as we are aware, the only representation of it ever published. The base to the neck mould is modern, and may have been a poor copy of what the original was. The shields have been painted, small particles of which yet remain; and the quatrefoils probably also. In the same place is a seat, of about the date of 16 to, bearing a remarkable resemblance in the ornaments of the panelling on the back of the pulpits to be seen at Wensingtnn and Aveley, Essex. On the bottom of the plinth stones to screen remains the working drawing of the section of the niullions above it: how they managed to work from it is rather difficult to say. If those men who think that Gothic architects only copied each other in any one style, were to compare this screen with those of Abbot Islyps Chapel, that behind the altar, Henry V. Chantry, and Henry VII. Chapel together, and see the spirit of each designer self-evident in his own work, they would learn a lesson which might do a little towards preventing their setting themselves up as critics on things which they are supremely -ignorant of: rendered so fi-07n the want of energy enough to make themselv
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