The antiquities of England and Wales . mprovements in building, which, at this time, were growingmore and more into efteem. Thus alfo Bifhop Hall, who wroteabout the fame time; viz. 1598 : There findeft thou fome ftately Doricke frame,Or neat lonicke work. But thefe ornaments were often abfurdly introduced into the oldGothic ftyle: as in the magnificent portico of the fchools at Ox-ford, erected about the year 1613 ; where the builder, in a Gothicedifice, has affectedly difplayed his univerfal fkill in the modernarchitecture, by giving us all the five orders together. However,mofl of the great
The antiquities of England and Wales . mprovements in building, which, at this time, were growingmore and more into efteem. Thus alfo Bifhop Hall, who wroteabout the fame time; viz. 1598 : There findeft thou fome ftately Doricke frame,Or neat lonicke work. But thefe ornaments were often abfurdly introduced into the oldGothic ftyle: as in the magnificent portico of the fchools at Ox-ford, erected about the year 1613 ; where the builder, in a Gothicedifice, has affectedly difplayed his univerfal fkill in the modernarchitecture, by giving us all the five orders together. However,mofl of the great buildings of Queen Elizabeths reign, have aftyle peculiar to themfelves both in form and finifhing; where,though much of the old Gothic is retained, and great part of thenew tafte is adopted, yet neither predominates; while both, thusdistinctly blended, compofe a fantaftic fpecies, hardly reducible toany clafs or name. One of its characteristics is the affectationof large and lofty windows; where, fays Bacon, you fhall have fometimes. * ten f>en>LL Saxo>* ^ Gothic Architecture 8cc, PREFACE. i25 fometimes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that one cannot tell whereto become, to be out of the fun. The marks which conftitute the character of Gothic, or Sara-cenical architecture, are its numerous and prominent buttreffes,its lofty fpires and pinnacles, its large and ramified windows, itsornamental niches or canopies, its fculptured faints, the delicatelace-work of its fretted roofs, and the profufion of ornamentslavifhed indifcriminately over the whole building: but its pecu-liar diftinguifhing characteriftics are, the fmall cluttered pillarsand pointed arches, formed by the fegments of two interferingcircles; which arches, though laft brought into ufe, are evidentlyof more fimple and obvious conftrucrion than the femicircularones; two flat ftones, with their tops inclined to each other, andtouching, form its rudiments, a number of boughs ftuck intothe ground oppofite each ot
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