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Britton, John
The architectural antiquities of Great Britain: represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of ancient English edifices ; with historical and descriptive accounts of each (Band 5) — 1835

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OPINIONS OF LEGRAND AND HAGGIT. 75

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Wished ma'j scattered with licentious profusion, and without any pre-estab-

efj^ lu^e or general principle; but often with just taste and feeling, as to the
arid°t[t0 ^6 Pro^uce^- No part of the interior of King's Chapel is ornamented ;
Cr°v ^°U^ ^e omarnents, considered with reference to parts only, often appear
rich ^ CaP"c'ous> and unmeaning, yet the effect of the whole together is more
' §rand, light, and airy, than that of any other building known, either ancient

Modern."14

The "

c°ntai ay on the General History of Architecture," by Mons. Legrand,

liQ • ,S a *"ew notices relating to " Gothic" structures, under which appellation
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to ajj j s tnose in the Pointed style; for he states, " that the term Gothic applies
with dj^6 maSSes °^ building presenting light and pyramidal forms, ornamented
Supn0rt-1Cate arcmtectural and sculptural decorations, having clustered pillars
^igious h ' ^>°"lte<^' or vai'iously turned arches, and forming arcades of a pro-
tue middl61^^ ' 5 '^'ie autnor ta^es a cursory view of the ecclesiastical edifices of
French 6 aSes in England, France, and other countries. In his observations on
racter Q^Urcnes he remarks, that some parts of these buildings possess a cha-
a period iaCCUra*e detail and elegance, which shows that they were executed at
qUent ^ss remote than the time of their original foundation ; as, long subse-
and dest ^FSt erect'on' tney nave been overthrown, pillaged, burnt, restored,
■wars of Seyeral times; having suffered either from earthquakes, or in the

c°nsider t| ar'ans- This writer, therefore would not probably be disposed to
doubts ^ Ce^e^rate<^ specimens of Pointed architecture in France, as the un-

assip-n i P1 Auctions of that early period to which Whittington and others have
s'letl them.

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Architect » gglt Published " Two Letters," in 1813, on the " Subject of Gothic
Survey „ Ure'" in reply to Dr. Milner's Objections to Whittington's " Historical
assurne'd IT W^°n he first animadverts, with pointed sarcasm, on the high tone
trovert h" ^ ^ doctor in his remarks on other writers, and next proceeds to con-
do^ ^ system as to the local origin and discovery of the Pointed style. In
arCn ex" ^ not only suPPorts the assertion of Whittington, that " the Pointed
with k,lS ^ 'n ^rance prior to its existence in England," but likewise contends,
lrn> that '< the French had attained to a high degree of perfection in Pointed

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"S " EssaaftlCal .InqU'ry bt0 the PrinciPles of Taste," &c. 1805, 8vo. p. 165.

ai sur l'Hist. Gin. de ['Architecture," par J. G. Legrand, Paris, 1809, 8vo. p. 66.

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