. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate es
. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate estimates appended to each design. Design S. TMr :fi. MARINE VILLA, IN THE GOTHIC STYLE. DESIGN No. 9. In the days of the celebrated architect Inigo Jones, in those of hissuccessor, the illustrious Sir Christopher Wren, and of all the professorsin succession, from the age of James the First to that of Georg-e theThird, the architecture of the middle ages was very little practised, andperhaps still less understood; indeed it might seem, that this oncenational species of architectural structure, so long and so successfullypractised, was not only become obsolete, but was likely to becomeextinct; so generally was it condemned by the arbiters of taste, and soentirety had it been superseded, by the predilection for the classic style ofancient Grecian and Roman art. There is in civilized society, a limitation to the existence of even thestrongest prejudices, and happily for the amateurs of Gothic, the objectionsso long and so pertinaciously maintained against it, are fast giving wayto sober judgment, and it is hoped, our old English architectur
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