Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of England and Wales
Year: 1785 (1780s)
Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Publisher: London : S. Hooper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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improvements in building, which, at this time, were growing more and more into efteem. Thus alfo Bifhop Hall, who wrote about the fame time; viz. 1598 : There findeft thou fome ftately Doricke frame,Or neat lonicke work. But thefe ornaments were often abfurdly introduced into the old Gothic ftyle: as in the magnificent portico of the fchools at Oxford, erected about the year 1613 ; where the builder, in a Gothic edifice, has affectedly difplayed his univerfal fkill in the modern architecture, by giving us all the five orders together. However, mofl of the great buildings of Queen Elizabeths reign, have a ftyle peculiar to themfelves both in form and finifhing; where,though much of the old Gothic is retained, and great part of the new tafte is adopted, yet neither predominates; while both, thus distinctly blended, compofe a fantaftic fpecies, hardly reducible to any clafs or name. One of its characteristics is the affectation of large and lofty windows; where, fays Bacon, you fhall have fometimes
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* ten f>en>LL Saxo>* ^ Gothic Architecture 8cc, PREFACE. i25 fometimes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the fun. The marks which conftitute the character of Gothic, or Saracenical architecture, are its numerous and prominent buttreffes,its lofty fpires and pinnacles, its large and ramified windows, its ornamental niches or canopies, its fculptured faints, the delicate lace-work of its fretted roofs, and the profufion of ornaments lavifhed indifcriminately over the whole building: but its peculiar diftinguifhing characteriftics are, the fmall cluttered pillars and pointed arches, formed by the fegments of two interfering circles; which arches, though laft brought into ufe, are evidently of more fimple and obvious conftrucrion than the femi circularones; two flat ftones, with their tops inclined to each other, and touching, form its rudiments, a number of boughs ftuck into the ground oppofite each other, and tied together at the top, in or<r>b
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