The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . d ; for, in Gothicjilding, all the stonework had a constructive meaning, the traceryP windows was not governed by fancy, and consequently they did notitroduce inverted arches of stone hanging
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . d ; for, in Gothicjilding, all the stonework had a constructive meaning, the traceryP windows was not governed by fancy, and consequently they did notitroduce inverted arches of stone hanging unsupported excepty its adhesion. The corresponding south window has been twice^stored; first, forty years before Wrens survey, who observed itas done well, which we may believe, from the purity of the presentne, copied exactly from it by Mr. Gayfere, mason, in 1814. A firet the roofs in 1803 led to a remodelling of the central rudimentary>wer. The blank arches in its internal faces formerly opened intole roofs, and probably contained tracery. The whole is now much>o bare, and the vaulting springing not only from the angles, butom the sides, where there is no butment, betrays itself to be only aiece of plaster scenery. The last addition, however, the woodworkf the choir, erected in 1847, is a very happy imitation of the mode1 which the artists of the purest Gothic times treated this kind of. A COMPARTMENT OF THE CLOISTER WALLS. 150 ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE—FIRST PERIOD. semi-architectural furniture. Unluckily this is disfigured by puerileefforts to half suppress and half conceal the organ, in deferenceto the common notion that grandeur is measured by the numberof feet we can see straightforward; this member having till thenstood in its usual place, over the entrance from the nave, but with-,out rising hio;h enough to conceal either end of the building from aspectator on the floor at the other end. Its removal admits a viewfrom the choir of nothing that was not previously
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