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قراءة كتاب The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
Transcriber’s Note
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“Whereby may be discerned that so fervent was the zeal of those elder times to God’s service and honour, that they freely endowed the church with some part of their possessions; and that in those good works even the meaner sort of men, as well as the pious founders, were not backwards.”
Dugdale’s Antiq. Warwickshire.
THE
PRINCIPLES
OF
GOTHIC
ECCLESIASTICAL
ARCHITECTURE,
ELUCIDATED BY QUESTION AND ANSWER.
BY
MATTHEW HOLBECHE BLOXAM.
FOURTH EDITION.
OXFORD:
JOHN HENRY PARKER.
PREFACE.
In revising this Work for a Fourth Edition several alterations have been made, especially in the Concluding Chapter; and the whole has been considerably enlarged.
M. H. B.
Rugby,
April 1841.
CONTENTS.
Page
Definition of Gothic Architecture; its Origin, and Division of it into Styles 17
Of the different Kinds of Arches 22
Of the Anglo-Saxon Style 30
Of the Norman or Anglo-Norman Style 51
Of the Semi-Norman Style 74
Of the Early English Style 86
Of the Decorated English Style 102
Of the Florid or Perpendicular English Style 120
Of the Debased English Style 145
Of the Internal Arrangement and Decorations of a Church 153
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.
Page 41, line 9, for Cambridge, read Lincoln.
Page 49. In addition to the list of churches containing presumed vestiges of Anglo-Saxon architecture,