Identifier: attempttodiscrim00rick (find matches)
Title: An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Oxford : J. H. Parker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Tcale of Feei JjrajiTi hrTtjcajvreaLbu S Ci£ta-rr.jcU SE.AJS a-F ■*i.?TSa2,S CATrffinEE)ffi-&X , ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. 37 During the eighteenth century various attempts, under thename of Gothic, have arisen in repairs and rebuilding ecclesias-tical edifices, but these have been little more than makingclustered columns and pointed windows, every real principleof English architecture being by the builders either unknownor totally neglected. English architecture may be divided into four distinct periods,or styles, which may be named, v 1st, the Norman style, 2nd, the Early English style, 3rd, the Decorated English style, and 4th, the Perpendicular English style. The dates of these styles we shall state hereafter, and it maybe proper to notice, that the clear distinctions are now almostentirely confined to churches ; for the destruction and altei-a-tion of castellated buildings have been so great, from thechanges in the modes of warfare, &c., that in them we canscarcely determi

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