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“Whereby may be discerned that so fervent was the zeal of thoseelder times to God’s service and honour, that they freely endowedthe church with some part of their possessions; and that in thosegood works even the meaner sort of men, as well as the piousfounders, were not backwards.”
Dugdale’s Antiq. Warwickshire.
THE
PRINCIPLES
OF
GOTHIC
ECCLESIASTICAL
ARCHITECTURE,
ELUCIDATED BY QUESTION AND ANSWER.
BY
MATTHEW HOLBECHE BLOXAM.
FOURTH EDITION.
OXFORD:
JOHN HENRY PARKER.
PREFACE.
In revising this Work for a Fourth Edition several alterations have beenmade, especially in the Concluding Chapter; and the whole has beenconsiderably enlarged.
M. H. B.
Rugby,
April 1841.
CONTENTS.
Page
Definition of Gothic Architecture; its Origin, and Divisionof it into Styles 17
Of the different Kinds of Arches 22