The antiquities of England and Wales . rg^n .^^c^fcga (inL r<i/u^it/III //leCW (V/ii/r/i a/ (rot/uc l}W/f>mi • uJitn i-LJinTicbi/H ten hcrold.^ * JL (;v . *»iV. ten in ^\\\o ^ccV^XikQ^^ Dc (in<» t^^Vf t. Saxon S«: Gothic Architecture &c. PREFACE. 125 fometlmes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that one cannot tell whereto become, to be out of the fun. The marks which conftitute-the charafter of Gothic, or Sara-cenical architeflure, are its numerous and prominent buttrefles,its lofty fpires and pinnacles, its laige and ramified windows, itsornamental niches or canopies, it
The antiquities of England and Wales . rg^n .^^c^fcga (inL r<i/u^it/III //leCW (V/ii/r/i a/ (rot/uc l}W/f>mi • uJitn i-LJinTicbi/H ten hcrold.^ * JL (;v . *»iV. ten in ^\\\o ^ccV^XikQ^^ Dc (in<» t^^Vf t. Saxon S«: Gothic Architecture &c. PREFACE. 125 fometlmes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that one cannot tell whereto become, to be out of the fun. The marks which conftitute-the charafter of Gothic, or Sara-cenical architeflure, are its numerous and prominent buttrefles,its lofty fpires and pinnacles, its laige and ramified windows, itsornamental niches or canopies, its fculptured faints, the delicatelace-work of its fretted roofs, and the profufion of ornamentslavifhed indifcriminately over the whole building : but its pecu-liar diftinguifliing charafteriftics are, the fmall cluftered pillarsand pointed arches, formed by the fegments of two interfeclingcircles; which arches, though laft brought into ufe, are evidentlyof more fimple and obvious conftruclion than the femicircularones; two flat flones, with their tops inclined to each other, andtouching, form its
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