The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, volume 1
The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, volume 1
John Whitaker
The book The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, volume 1 was written by author John Whitaker Here you can read free online of The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, volume 1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, volume 1 a good or bad book?
What reading level is The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, volume 1 book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
them ; and on the south side of the chancel a doorway, the arch of which is richly laced with zig-zag mouldings, hut still more sharply pointed %. And, to note-only one instance immediately below the Conquest, in that new part of the abbey-church at St. Alban's, which I shaU hereafter shew to have been erected between the years 1077 and 1093 ; while in the old parts " the arches are semi-circular," and '^ there is no arch hut the ^' plain semi-circle,'* in that " the pointed arch is to be seen ...in all the ^^ several specimens of good and complete building *•'* " I submit it with great deference to the judgment of the [Antiquarian] ^^ Society," finally subjoins Mr. Ledwich, always learned and always in- genious, " whether the novum genus cedificandi of William of Malmes* *' bury, applied to the architecture of the Conqueror*s reign, does not im- ^' ply something more than extent and magnificence ; and whether,, to '* complete the idea of a new style, we ought not to take in the pointed '* arch and Gothic ornaments f ." Mr.
User Reviews: