The Cotman Collection | 65

Cotmania. Vol. III. 1928-9

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 21 recto, flap verso


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    Article clipping of extract from Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, vol. 5, essay on origins of Gothic [Arches]

    Article clipping of extract from Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, vol. 5, essay on origins of Gothic [Arches]

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    *Extracts from Vol. V of Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain. Essay on the origins of Gothic [illegible, one word].

    1. "Chronological History and Graphic Illustrations of Christian Arches in England, [illegible, 2 words] enquiry lists the rise proper + perfection of this species of architecture."*
      to reflect that almost every building contains, in itself, a medley of what is barbarous and classical, while no two can well vary more in the quantity of their ornaments that the two Abbatial Churches of Caen; and yet there were both of them, beyond dispute, of the same era."
      If, however, this mode of determining the age of a building be abandoned, it will, perhaps, be impossible to find one more satisfactory, which will admit of general application. It may be asked, also, in refutation of Mr Turner's opinion of Lisieux Cathedral having been raised in the eleventh century, why all the early Anglo-Norman Churches should have been erected in a style so essentially different?

Article clipping of extract from Britton's *Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain*, vol. 5, essay on origins of Gothic [Arches]