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much more fanciful than correct. Large lozenges, on which sun-dials
were adapted to the particular aspect, were in very frequent use; and
as clocks and watches were not very genera], the practice must have
been of considerable utility.
“ As the architecture of Italy became the fashionable model for the
buildings of this country, stained glass was gradually neglected ; though
heraldry still lingered as a decoration to the windows of the great
halls; but these evidently prove that this art did not receive en-
couragement sufficient to make it worthy the attention of clever prac-
titioners. Some few examples in illustration of the foregoing remarks
are added:—
“ ECCLESIASTICAL, OR IX PRIVATE CHAPELS.
“ King’s College, Cambridge. The windows at the east end, and on
the south and north sides, contain passages, in parallel lines, from the
Old and New Testaments ; the architectural ornaments are Florentine.
Although from these windows it might be difficult to select any di-
vision that would satisfy the spectator as a picture, yet the judicious
contrast of the several colours, and the propriety in the arrangement
of the designs to suit the architectural divisions of the windows, pro-
duce a general effect altogether unequalled. In the smaller chapels
attached to King’s College Chapel, the glass is relieved generally by
pale yellow and brown, with some few heraldic embellishments in the
brighter tints; the lower openings are filled by quarries bearing the
daisy, fleur-de-lis, or letters tied together by cords thrown fantastically
through the openings.
In Henry the Seventh’s Chapel, at Westminster, the upper points
of the windows are decorated with the rose, portcullis, feather, and
other badges of royalty; in the lower divisions are quarries bearing
were adapted to the particular aspect, were in very frequent use; and
as clocks and watches were not very genera], the practice must have
been of considerable utility.
“ As the architecture of Italy became the fashionable model for the
buildings of this country, stained glass was gradually neglected ; though
heraldry still lingered as a decoration to the windows of the great
halls; but these evidently prove that this art did not receive en-
couragement sufficient to make it worthy the attention of clever prac-
titioners. Some few examples in illustration of the foregoing remarks
are added:—
“ ECCLESIASTICAL, OR IX PRIVATE CHAPELS.
“ King’s College, Cambridge. The windows at the east end, and on
the south and north sides, contain passages, in parallel lines, from the
Old and New Testaments ; the architectural ornaments are Florentine.
Although from these windows it might be difficult to select any di-
vision that would satisfy the spectator as a picture, yet the judicious
contrast of the several colours, and the propriety in the arrangement
of the designs to suit the architectural divisions of the windows, pro-
duce a general effect altogether unequalled. In the smaller chapels
attached to King’s College Chapel, the glass is relieved generally by
pale yellow and brown, with some few heraldic embellishments in the
brighter tints; the lower openings are filled by quarries bearing the
daisy, fleur-de-lis, or letters tied together by cords thrown fantastically
through the openings.
In Henry the Seventh’s Chapel, at Westminster, the upper points
of the windows are decorated with the rose, portcullis, feather, and
other badges of royalty; in the lower divisions are quarries bearing