 | Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...and Kirby, of which he says he laid the first stone in 1570. The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic...dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence; for I am persuaded that what we call Gothic architecture was confined solely to religious buildings,... | |
 | Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...and Kirby, of which he says he laid the first stone in 1570. The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic...dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence; for I am persuaded that what we call Gothic architecture was confined solely to religious buildings,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 492 pages
...mansions was that bastard style whieh intervened between Gothie and Greeian arehiteeture, or whieh, perhaps, was the style that had been invented for...the Roses, to abandon their fortified dungeons, and eonsult eonvenienee and magnifieenee ; for I am persuaded that what we eall Gothie arehiteeture was... | |
 | Archaeology - 1873 - 670 pages
...Elizabeth, when it is said to have been first introduced. He says, " the taste of all these stately mansion» was that bastard style which intervened...dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence ; for I am persuaded, that what we call Gothic architecture was confined solely to religious buildings,... | |
 | Alexander Wood - London (England) - 1874 - 412 pages
...began the present building in 1542. It is a fine example of the style that, as Horace Walpole says, ' intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture,...dungeons and consult convenience and magnificence.' Sion House is built round a quadrangle, eighty feet square. The roof is flat and embattled ; at each... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 pages
...and Kirby, of which he says he laid the first stone in 1570. The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic...dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence ; for I am persuaded that what we call Gothic architecture was confined solely to religious buildings,... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...Kirby, of which he says he laid the first stone in 1570. The taste of these stately mansions was of that bastard style which intervened between Gothic...dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence ; "for I am persuaded," continues Wai. pole, " that what we call Gothic architecture was confined solely... | |
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The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture; or which perhaps was the style that had been invented for the houses of the nobility, when they first ventured on the settlement of... 
