Excerpt from A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages: With Ten Illustrative Plates

The subject of the present Treatise has given rise to so much and such earnest debate among the learned and ingenious, and has occasioned so many pubhcations, and such a variety of systems concerning it, as cannot fail of exciting the wonder of persons insensible to the grandeur and beauty of Pointed Architecture, and unacquainted with the merit of its invention.

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