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 . the shields in the spandrels arecarved the monograms of Our Saviour and of theblessed Virgin; other shields, with inscriptions nowbecome unintelligible, terminate the label. In the arrangement of these doorways we havefrequent opportunities of remarking instances of thatunbounded freedom, so characteristic of this style
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 . the shields in the spandrels arecarved the monograms of Our Saviour and of theblessed Virgin; other shields, with inscriptions nowbecome unintelligible, terminate the label. In the arrangement of these doorways we havefrequent opportunities of remarking instances of thatunbounded freedom, so characteristic of this style ofbuilding. Does a window occur just where it was wished to have placed a doorway—with the utmost boldness they are both incorporated into one design ; or, does abuttress present an apparently insurmountable obstacle to the doorways being placed in a particular posi-tion— it is at once made to expand on either side, and by a clever contrivance the desired doorway is pierced through it; or again, we may have to admire the ingenuityP with which the diffi- Leir Church, Lkicestkrshire. CultV haS bcCU OVCr- come, of both erecting a buttress, and addinga porch to an already existing every minutia of Gothic Architec- CraXSLEY ChURCFI,
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