. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. IKtrSK AM) I!i:|-,K SllOl tZlM Sl-ATKN i liKKLlN, : LXII. Peculiarities of English Design any past style as in the simpler and morecommercial building. There is muchsculpture, rather carefully designed and cutwith great brilliancy. There is a ratherfree use of pseudo-classic columns andcolonnettes; there is a daring combinationof larger architectural details, such as gablesof cut stone with rounded outline, cappedwith bold drip moulds, pinnacle-towerswrought into niches with statuary, a porchof entran
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. IKtrSK AM) I!i:|-,K SllOl tZlM Sl-ATKN i liKKLlN, : LXII. Peculiarities of English Design any past style as in the simpler and morecommercial building. There is muchsculpture, rather carefully designed and cutwith great brilliancy. There is a ratherfree use of pseudo-classic columns andcolonnettes; there is a daring combinationof larger architectural details, such as gablesof cut stone with rounded outline, cappedwith bold drip moulds, pinnacle-towerswrought into niches with statuary, a porchof entrance with a very boldly projectinghood, well handled, with caryatid figures,a staircase tower with a cut stone attic ofgreat merit, and ventilation towers com-bined with the roof structure and differen-tiated finely from the masonry-built formsnear them. It is a costly building, a re-fined and thought-out design ; and yet onecannot say that there is anything of thepast in it more than this—that it is basedupon the spirit and taste of the Renaissancerather than upon that of t
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