The art of landscape gardening . Fig. 22. Stoke Park, Herefordshire. It is not sufficient that a building should be in justproportions with itself; it should bear some relative pro-portion to the objects near it. The example given[Fig. 22] is the Doric portico at Stoke Park, in Here-fordshire, where the size of the building was regulatedby a large oak and a young plantation near it: had thisbuilding been more lofty, it would have overpoweredthe young trees by which it Is surrounded, and a smaller Theory And Practice i«i building would have appeared diminutive so near tothe neighbouring large o
The art of landscape gardening . Fig. 22. Stoke Park, Herefordshire. It is not sufficient that a building should be in justproportions with itself; it should bear some relative pro-portion to the objects near it. The example given[Fig. 22] is the Doric portico at Stoke Park, in Here-fordshire, where the size of the building was regulatedby a large oak and a young plantation near it: had thisbuilding been more lofty, it would have overpoweredthe young trees by which it Is surrounded, and a smaller Theory And Practice i«i building would have appeared diminutive so near tothe neighbouring large oak; I therefore judged that thebest rule for the dimensions of the columns wasrather less than the diameter of the oak, and this, ofcourse, determined the whole proportion of the Doricportico. So prevalent is the taste for what is called Gothic, in theneighbourhood of great cities, that we see buildings ofevery description, from the villa to the pig-sty, with little. Fig. 23. Gothic Cottage, pointed arches or battlements, to look like Gothic ; anda Gothic dairy is now become as common an appendageto a place as were formerly the hermitage, the grotto, orthe Chinese pavilion. Why the dairy should be Gothic,when the house is not so, I cannot understand, unlessit arises from that great source of bad taste, to introducewhat Is called a pretty thing without any reference to itscharacter, situation, or uses. Even in old Gothic cot-tages we never see the sharp-pointed arch, but often theflat arch of Henry VIII, and perhaps there is no formmore picturesque for a cottage than buildings of that 182 The Art of Landscape Gardening date, especially as their lofty perforated chimneys notonly contribute to the beauty of the outUne, but tend toremedy the curse of the poor mans fireside, a smokyhouse [see Fig. 23]. There are few situations in which any building, whetherof rude materials or highly finished architecture, can beproperly introduced without some trees n
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