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Title: The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Weale, John, 1791-1862
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ftetween the curves. England containsIsewhere examplesf every stage of thisrocess, the passagecom a group ofwindows to a com-ound window, andlence to a dividedr traceried window,-showing this toa spontaneousrowth of the Gothiconstructive princi-les, and not a mereishion importedom the Continent:lough it also sprungp there just as na-lrally, and perhapslore quickly at-lined its utmostevelopment; for thewindows at Colognejathedral (a work;rictly contemporary,ith this) are moreomplete examplesf tracery; while on;ie other hand, the,illars, mouldings,nd vaulting are;iore advanced andjfined here than atologne. The upperpresent,the firstof a rib)r rather a bandf deeply-hollowed)liage) running^ong each ridge; but the general progress is seen less in the introduc-on of new features than in the studious attention to give the lastsgree of polish and grace to the proportions both of the smallest detailid of every larger division. This is almost the only Gothic building H aultings srhaps, 1 stance
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NORTH END OF THE TRANSEPT, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. (The tracery and glass of the circular icindow is modern.) 146 ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE—FIRST PERIOD. (at least in England) in which there is nothing stunted or dwarfish,or over lengthy, compared with adjoining objects, and yet theforms are by no means monotonous. Externally the peculiar rangeof triangular windows lighting the triforium is a most masterly con-trivance, adding greatly both to beauty and grandeur, by its contrastwith the tall stories above and below it, and by assisting us in atrue estimation of the uncommon height of the whole. As for theinterior of the same story, there is perhaps nothing else in the wholerange of Gothic art so perfectly beautiful, whether seen in the sidesof the building as a double colonnade with dark background, atthe south transept end, where it is single and backed by windows, orat the north end by a plain wall. Hardly less elegant is the blankarcade that once continued round the whole interior under t

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