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Excerpt from The Ecclesiologist, 1843, Vol. 1This patience of mine has, as usual, brought its own reward and after labouring on for some time through a good deal more of evil than of good report, I find myself at last, and in an incredibly short time, surrounded not only by approvers and favourers, but by coadjutors, whose authority in the several departments of my undertaking at once gives an indubitable sanction to what I have done already, ...

Excerpt from A Few Hints on the Practical Study of Ecclesiastical Architecture and Antiquities: For the Use of the Cambridge Camden SocietyAbout the year 1280 commenced a new style, which has been denominated the Decorated, and which, from its tasteful arrangements, symmetrical proportions, and chaste enrichment, is usually considered as the most perfect description of Gothick Archi tecture. In truth, in the early or transitional period of thi...

Excerpt from Illustrations of Monumental BrassesThe knowledge of costume must be allowed to be indispensable to such a power. Te smile at the notion that Julius Caesar has been applauded on the English stage, as he was represented by Booth. Yet the anaclu'onism was hardly more glaring than many which might be pointed out in paintings of scenes in the middle ages, by artists of the highest celebrity. Armour and dresses of every agc of chivalry ...

Excerpt from The Ecclesiologist, Vol. 5The windows, which follow next in order, are always of one light, and have hardly any feature in common with those which are generally supposed to be peculiar to anglo-saxon, except their smallness, and that some of them have triangular heads. The windows appear to have been without glass, and are splayed internally, among the older churches only one instance is quoted of the splay both internally and ext...

Excerpt from A Few Words to Churchwardens on Churches and Church Ornaments: No. I. Suited to Country Parishes Benjamin webb, Esq., Trinity College. James Gavin Young, Esq., Trinity College. Frederick apthorp paley, Esq. St John's College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from A Few Words to Church BuildersPatron Saint.rarely, if ever, in use among our ancestors. Such are - S. Paul, instead Of ss. Peter and Paul, Christ church, and S. Saviour' s, for a small building, Emmanuel church, and the like. But who would found a church in England - once the England of Saints - with out some attention to the local memory of those holy men whose names still live in the appellations of many Of our towns? Who, in th...

Excerpt from The Ecclesiologist, Vol. 8 Lancet windows, - faultless, it is true, -well-pointed, well-proportioned, well-splayed, deeply set, boldly architraved, -but a world too numerous, regular, and unvarying, - except where beautifully and richly relieved, as at Appledram, and All Saints', Chichester, and Bosham, with the "dark brilliance" of polished shafts of Purbeck or Petworth, spires somewhat of the shortest and dingiest, aisles but s...

Excerpt from Churches of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of ElyOf the Hinton family we find the following slight notice in the Life of Bishop Lisle, printed in the first Vol. Of Leland's Collectanea, pt. Ii. P. 607. Hugo de Hinton nobilis armiger filius J cannie de Hinton, pugnavit tempore Ed. III. Una cum patre Gul. De Hinton, milite, in transmarinis partibus. Et in regno Hispaniae contra inimicos crucis Christi. Qua in pugna Gul. De Hinton miles...

Excerpt from Illustrations of Monumental BrassesThe knowledge of costume must be allowed to be indispensable to such a power. Te smile at the notion that Julius Caesar has been applauded on the English stage, as he was represented by Booth. Yet the anaclu'onism was hardly more glaring than many which might be pointed out in paintings of scenes in the middle ages, by artists of the highest celebrity. Armour and dresses of every agc of chivalry ...