. The Architectural magazine. o confirm the idea thrownout above of the origin of this style oftracery. The other circumstance is,the extreme inequality in the designingand execution of work during the per-pendicular period. In the early pointedstyles, the designs arecharacterised by a con-in the con-ception, and carefulness in the the perpendicular styles, whilst wehave many splendid specimens of archi-tectural taste and beauty, it must beacknowledged that much of the workdisplays great tameness and poverty ofidea in the design, and frequently con-siderable rudeness in the execut
. The Architectural magazine. o confirm the idea thrownout above of the origin of this style oftracery. The other circumstance is,the extreme inequality in the designingand execution of work during the per-pendicular period. In the early pointedstyles, the designs arecharacterised by a con-in the con-ception, and carefulness in the the perpendicular styles, whilst wehave many splendid specimens of archi-tectural taste and beauty, it must beacknowledged that much of the workdisplays great tameness and poverty ofidea in the design, and frequently con-siderable rudeness in the execution. This is particularly observ-able in many small churches, and additions to churches, erectedin the early part of the sixteenth century. Since the taste forpointed architecture has revived, it has become too much thecustom to profess admiration for the architecture of every build-ing erected previously to the Reformation. This may be calledboth literally and metaphorically, a Gothic taste. In this in-Vol. II. — Xo. 15. q. and decoratedalmost always siderable degree of vigour 226 Elemen/s and Pri/ic?]>Irs tliscriminate admiration, I must confess, 1 cannot antiquarian predilections are not sufficiently strong to enableme to feel veneration for any building simply on the score of itsage. To excite a legitimate feeling of respect, an edifice oughteither to possess some intrinsic claims to excellence, or to be themeans of exciting, by association, a train of ideas of a pleasingor improving character. In default of either of these recom-menda4ions, a blind admiration for antiquity, must be considered,at best, but as a spurious and doubtful sort of taste, more calcu-lated to mislead and delude its votaries, than to produce anydesirable results. The above sketch will be found, as far as it goes, to give atolerably correct statement of the progress of Gothic tracery in this country; but before conclud-ing, it will be necessary to mentiona few farther particulars, t
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