. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fig. 2.—West Window of York Cathedral. (Fig. 2,) -will exemplify this. In this fine composition, no effect is 257 improperly lessened by the presence of any neighbouring part. An arch of unomamented but elegant mouldings, placed beneath a rich crocketed canopy, circumscribes tracery of the most elaborate de- signs. Three mullions, each 11 inches in width and 8 inches in pro- jection, divide the opening into four equal parts; each of these com- partments is subdivided by anoth
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fig. 2.—West Window of York Cathedral. (Fig. 2,) -will exemplify this. In this fine composition, no effect is 257 improperly lessened by the presence of any neighbouring part. An arch of unomamented but elegant mouldings, placed beneath a rich crocketed canopy, circumscribes tracery of the most elaborate de- signs. Three mullions, each 11 inches in width and 8 inches in pro- jection, divide the opening into four equal parts; each of these com- partments is subdivided by another mullion, which is only 8 inches wide and 6 inches in projection. The ramifications of the head are marked out into large and bold features by the continuation of the larger mullion, from the sides of which spring the mouldings, winch form the smaller ramifications. Drawing attention to so celebrated an example, with which all present must be quite familiar, affords me a main link in the chain of argument—indeed proves that the main unvarying laws of composition were known to the Gothic architects as to the great in art of every time.— " 'Mid curves that vary in perpetual twine, " Truth owns but one direct and perfect ; This principle of dividing by large features, and subdividing by smal- ler, being—to use the words of Burke—"as it were, moulded into each other"—has been ably elucidated by Professor Willis in an elaborate paper on Gothic vaultings, published in the transactions of this Institute. It may be difficult to deny, that the principles of pointed design permitted a greater latitude, or, that exceptions to the general arrangement were not unfrequent in a style of such inven- tion and variety; and it is also probable, that in the different lodges of Freemasons, the principles themselves might slightly vary; but to assert, by implication, that the beautiful creations of Gothic archi- tecture are the results of accident rather t
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