Over Fen And Wold
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Some antiquaries, however, maintain that it is intended for King Ethelbald, the founder of the monastery ; this would be a plausible enough suggestion but for the fact that this king is already represented amongst the statues that still adorn the abbey.
The mouldings, ribs, and vaultings of the arches indicate the date of the present bridge to be about the middle of the fourteenth century. It is worthy of O VER FEN AND WOLD note how readily an archaeologist may determine the approximate date of... an ancient building by its style, even, if needs be, by a small portion of its carvings ; but what will the archaeologists of centuries hence be able to make of our present jumble of all periods ? a mixture of past forms from which the meaning and true spirit have fled. Indeed, a certain famous English architect once boasted, I have been told, that he made such an excellent copy of an Early English building, even to the working of the stones roughly, in reverent imitation of the original, that he gave it as his opinion that, in the course of a century or two, when the new building had become duly time-toned, weather-stained, and the stone -work crumbled a little here and there, no future antiquary would be able to distinguish it from a genuine Early English structure, unless possibly by its better state of preservation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Some antiquaries, however, maintain that it is intended for King Ethelbald, the founder of the monastery ; this would be a plausible enough suggestion but for the fact that this king is already represented amongst the statues that still adorn the abbey.
The mouldings, ribs, and vaultings of the arches indicate the date of the present bridge to be about the middle of the fourteenth century. It is worthy of O VER FEN AND WOLD note how readily an archaeologist may determine the approximate date of... an ancient building by its style, even, if needs be, by a small portion of its carvings ; but what will the archaeologists of centuries hence be able to make of our present jumble of all periods ? a mixture of past forms from which the meaning and true spirit have fled. Indeed, a certain famous English architect once boasted, I have been told, that he made such an excellent copy of an Early English building, even to the working of the stones roughly, in reverent imitation of the original, that he gave it as his opinion that, in the course of a century or two, when the new building had become duly time-toned, weather-stained, and the stone -work crumbled a little here and there, no future antiquary would be able to distinguish it from a genuine Early English structure, unless possibly by its better state of preservation.
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