The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture with an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms - Couverture souple

Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche

 
9781162628035: The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture with an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms

Synopsis

1849. Contents: Origin, Progress, and Decline of Gothic or English Ecclesiastical Architecture; Definition of Gothic Architecture; Different kinds of Arches; Anglo Saxon Style; Anglo Norman Style; Semi Norman Style; Early English Style; Decorated English Style; Florid or Perpendicular English Style; Debased English Style. Illustrated.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The first version of this three-volume work was published in 1829 as a question-and-answer book of 80 pages. The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 edition of this hugely popular, highly illustrated work, reissued here, was published at the urging of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and consists of two volumes on Gothic ecclesiastical architecture and a 'companion' volume on church vestments. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1805–88), a solicitor by profession, was an enthusiastic architectural historian with a passion for churches. In the preface, as well as explaining his reasons for another edition, Bloxam records his concern that some features he had recorded fifty years earlier no longer exist: 'In the so-called restorations of ancient churches, not a few historical features ... have been ruthlessly, and in many cases needlessly, swept away.' Volume 2 discusses the internal layout of churches before the Reformation, and the monastic tradition.

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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Historical Monographs collection.

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