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kuildings; and in reject to tke pointed st^le, tkat endeavour lias keen extended
to a decree os ver^ minute particularity. Hie remarks are illustrated k^ several
engravings from liis own intended to exemplify kis aeeount os tlie diiserent
stales os arckitecture deseriked in tlie work ; kut it would liave keen ketter, perkaps,
is Ke kad copied kis illustrations srom existing kuildings, as a sar greater impression
would, k^ tkat means, kave keen made on tke arekiteetural amateur. 8peaking os
Koman art, Ke sa^s, " Oonstantine, wko died in ^.D. 337, ereeted tke ekurek os
8t. dokn, witkout tke walls os Koine, wkiek, in saet, in its composition resemkles
a Norman kuilding; and it is curious to okserve tkat tke ornament asterwards used
so prosusel^ in Norman work is used in tke kuildings os Dioelesian, wkose Oorin-
tkian modillions are capped witk a moulding cut in ^igxag, and wkiek onl^ wants
tke enlargement os tke moulding to kecome a real Norman ornament."^
His aeeount os tke progress os ancient arekiteeture in tkis country is tkus, also,
sueeinetlv given in kis introductory remarks:—" ^ken tke Komans lest tke island
it was most likely tkat Ike attempts os Ike Lritons were still more rude, and endea-
vouring to imitate, kut not executing on principle, tke Koman work, tkeir areki-
teeture keeame dekased into tke 8axon and earl^ Norman, intermixed witk
ornaments perkaps krougkt in k)i tke Danes, ^.ster tke conquest tke rick Norman
Karons, erecting ver^ magnikcent castles and ckurekes, tke execution manifestly
improved, tkougk still witk muck similarity to tke Doman stzde dekased; kut tke
introduction os skasts, instead os tke massive pier, krst kegan to approaek to tkat
ligkter mode os kuilding, wkiek k^ tke introduction os tke Dointed arek, and k^ an
increased delicacy os execution, and koldness os composition, ripened, at tke close
os tke twelstk century, into tke simple, ^et keautisul earl^ Knglisk st^le. ^t tlie
close os anotker century tkis st^le srom tke alteration os its windows, k^ tkrowing
tkem into larger ones divided k^ mullions, introducing tracery in tke keads os tke
windows, and tke general use os dowered ornaments, togetker witk an important
alteration in Ike piers, kecame tke decorated Knglisk st^le, wkiek ma^ Ke considered
as tke perfection os tke Knglisk mode."^
Nr. sa^s, " wkat is improperly denominated Ootkie Arekiteeture,
wketker it originated in Dranee, Oerman^, Ital^, or England, was certainly
simultaneous in all tkese countriesand tkat it is " a question os no small dis-
kcult^ srom wkat source it is derived." Ke adds, " tkat tke Dointed arek kas a
Vids " Attempt," Le. p. 4, 24. edit. 1819.
Ibid.
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kuildings; and in reject to tke pointed st^le, tkat endeavour lias keen extended
to a decree os ver^ minute particularity. Hie remarks are illustrated k^ several
engravings from liis own intended to exemplify kis aeeount os tlie diiserent
stales os arckitecture deseriked in tlie work ; kut it would liave keen ketter, perkaps,
is Ke kad copied kis illustrations srom existing kuildings, as a sar greater impression
would, k^ tkat means, kave keen made on tke arekiteetural amateur. 8peaking os
Koman art, Ke sa^s, " Oonstantine, wko died in ^.D. 337, ereeted tke ekurek os
8t. dokn, witkout tke walls os Koine, wkiek, in saet, in its composition resemkles
a Norman kuilding; and it is curious to okserve tkat tke ornament asterwards used
so prosusel^ in Norman work is used in tke kuildings os Dioelesian, wkose Oorin-
tkian modillions are capped witk a moulding cut in ^igxag, and wkiek onl^ wants
tke enlargement os tke moulding to kecome a real Norman ornament."^
His aeeount os tke progress os ancient arekiteeture in tkis country is tkus, also,
sueeinetlv given in kis introductory remarks:—" ^ken tke Komans lest tke island
it was most likely tkat Ike attempts os Ike Lritons were still more rude, and endea-
vouring to imitate, kut not executing on principle, tke Koman work, tkeir areki-
teeture keeame dekased into tke 8axon and earl^ Norman, intermixed witk
ornaments perkaps krougkt in k)i tke Danes, ^.ster tke conquest tke rick Norman
Karons, erecting ver^ magnikcent castles and ckurekes, tke execution manifestly
improved, tkougk still witk muck similarity to tke Doman stzde dekased; kut tke
introduction os skasts, instead os tke massive pier, krst kegan to approaek to tkat
ligkter mode os kuilding, wkiek k^ tke introduction os tke Dointed arek, and k^ an
increased delicacy os execution, and koldness os composition, ripened, at tke close
os tke twelstk century, into tke simple, ^et keautisul earl^ Knglisk st^le. ^t tlie
close os anotker century tkis st^le srom tke alteration os its windows, k^ tkrowing
tkem into larger ones divided k^ mullions, introducing tracery in tke keads os tke
windows, and tke general use os dowered ornaments, togetker witk an important
alteration in Ike piers, kecame tke decorated Knglisk st^le, wkiek ma^ Ke considered
as tke perfection os tke Knglisk mode."^
Nr. sa^s, " wkat is improperly denominated Ootkie Arekiteeture,
wketker it originated in Dranee, Oerman^, Ital^, or England, was certainly
simultaneous in all tkese countriesand tkat it is " a question os no small dis-
kcult^ srom wkat source it is derived." Ke adds, " tkat tke Dointed arek kas a
Vids " Attempt," Le. p. 4, 24. edit. 1819.
Ibid.