Identifier: essayonhistoryof00scot (find matches)
Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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hole of Europe, it isdifificult now to conjecture. The loss of so powerful an instrument for the furtherance of artand of civilization, due to religious dis-union and the consequent enfeeblement of the socialprinciples of Christianity, must ever be a matter of profound regret. ^ Thus in Northamptonshire almost every steeple has a stone spire ; in the adjacent county of Buckinghamthere are, I believe, but three ancient spires, and of these two are on the border of Northants. It is quitestriking in driving from the one county into the other to observe the abrupt change in the general design of thevillage churches, which is determined by the crossing of some nameless brooklet. Rievaulx, Netley, and Tintern exhibit this, the especial character of the work of the most austere of all themonastic orders, in its noblest form, and it is important thus to observe the instinctive sympathy which uniteswhat is most tender in the expression of human nature with the most severe asceticism. PLATE II.
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TINTERN ABBEY. EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE EAST iiND. PREFACE. V I have referred to this matter here, because, while it is a subject upon which I confessmyself unable to throw much light, I should be unwilling to appear to ignore its importanceto a proper understanding of medieval architecture. There only remains the pleasant task of acknowledging the assistance which I have receivedfrom so many quarters. My thanks are particularly due to M. le Comte de Vogiie, the authorof the work entitled Syrie Centrale: Architecture Civile et Religieuse du Premier au SeptiemeSi^cle, and to M. Baudry, its publisher, for permission to reproduce from it several plans andillustrations. This is a work of great accuracy, which deserves to be more widely known. Ihave to thank Mr. R. Popplewell Pullan for a similar permission, very courteously given, inregard to the work upon Byzantine Architecture, illustrated by Examples of Edifices erectedin the East during the Earliest Ages of Christianity, which was publish

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