. The Architectural magazine. 200. 442 O/i the Classi/ication and Details 201 thedral, about the same date; St. Georges Chapel, Windsor,1481; and Henry Chapel,Westminster, about 1503. InHenry Chapel, and, infact, in many of the buildings ofthe fourth class, we can trace ageneral decline in the art, with-out alluding to the wearisomerichness, which becomes fatiguingto the eye for want of have no doubt I lay myself opento much reproof for presumingto differ from the accepted opinionwith regard to this class of ar-chitecture; but I think I needonly refer to the exterior ofHen

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. The Architectural magazine. 200. 442 O/i the Classi/ication and Details 201 thedral, about the same date; St. Georges Chapel, Windsor,1481; and Henry Chapel,Westminster, about 1503. InHenry Chapel, and, infact, in many of the buildings ofthe fourth class, we can trace ageneral decline in the art, with-out alluding to the wearisomerichness, which becomes fatiguingto the eye for want of have no doubt I lay myself opento much reproof for presumingto differ from the accepted opinionwith regard to this class of ar-chitecture; but I think I needonly refer to the exterior ofHenry Chapel in vindi-cation of my assertion. This ex-terior is cut into so many smallparts, that there is scarcely anysituation from which a pleasingview of it can be obtained; andthe principal charm which it pos-sesses in point of effect is bor-rowed from its contrast with theAbbey: the whole exterior, in short, is a multiplicity of angularprojections, which throw no shadow, and, consequently, produceno relief. The interior i

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