An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . to the kindness of the Rev. Charles Boutell: to whom they also have tooffer their sincere acknowledgments for much valuable assistance in thearrangement of their letterpress description. Had the plates beenexecuted by more practised zincographers, they would doubtless haveexhibited a higher degree of artistic treatment,
An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . to the kindness of the Rev. Charles Boutell: to whom they also have tooffer their sincere acknowledgments for much valuable assistance in thearrangement of their letterpress description. Had the plates beenexecuted by more practised zincographers, they would doubtless haveexhibited a higher degree of artistic treatment, and greater beauty offinish ; but this, it was feared, might have involved the risk of some slightinaccuracy, and thus have considerably diminished the utility of theBxamples. The humble labours of the Authors have been sw eetened and renderedlear to them by the sincerest admiration for those noble monuments ofiety and skill, our English Churches ; which even now% cruelly mutilatednd dishonoured as they often remain, are still foremost among the^.^ries of our land: and should their exertions in any way tend to»jurage and enhance sentiments of interest in the matchless architecturethe Middle Ages, their desire will be most fully accomplished. / I N T R O I) U C T I O N. ERY shortly after the coinmencement of the second tliousand years of theChristian era, the Ecclesiastical Architectui-e of this countr}-, as if prepamtoiTto the accession of a Norman dynasty, became assimihited to the peculiarform of Romanesque then established in the Duchy of Xormandy, and at thepresent day distinguished among ourselves as the Anglo-Norman style. The firstprinciples of this style appear to have been introduced into England by Edward the Con-fessor, or possibly l^y Canute, and by them applied to the construction of the numerousChurches erected during their reigns : so that the rapid improvement in Church xVi-chi-tecture which took place under the Norman princes, was in reality the development of
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