Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . Ely cathedral alone fur-nifties a pretty complete feries of the ftyles which prevailed from the eleventh centuryto the fixteenth. The firft examples we fliall produce are of that fpecies of architec-ture, generally known in this country by the name of Saxon, which is the fame thatprevailed throughout Europe, after the decline of the Roman Empire ; and whichis in faft nothing more than Roman in a degenerated ftate, and enriched witha great variety of grotefque and irregular ornaments. Of this mode
Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . Ely cathedral alone fur-nifties a pretty complete feries of the ftyles which prevailed from the eleventh centuryto the fixteenth. The firft examples we fliall produce are of that fpecies of architec-ture, generally known in this country by the name of Saxon, which is the fame thatprevailed throughout Europe, after the decline of the Roman Empire ; and whichis in faft nothing more than Roman in a degenerated ftate, and enriched witha great variety of grotefque and irregular ornaments. Of this mode of build-ing, which with fome variation in the magnitude of the edifices, and in theirdecorations, prevailed in England from the feventh century to the twelfth, a verycurious example, and unqueftionably one of the oldeft in the kingdom, occursin the remains of the con\entual church at Ely ; the greateft part of which ftillexifts, though filled up with the prebendal houfes. This building is undoubtedlyof as early a date as the reign of king Edgar, in the tenthCentury ; and indeed there Fig. to 30 .fo SO do /<•<*.
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