Aunt Elinors Lectures On Architecture Dedicated to the Ladies of England
Aunt Elinors Lectures On Architecture Dedicated to the Ladies of England
Newman Hall
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The monumental chapels of this style are peculiarly deserving attention, and often of the most elaborate workmanship. The one at Boxgrove, erected by Lord La War in 1532, is of course late Perpendicular. In the choir at Arundel are several monuments, one very rich of late Perpendicular. Perpenthcular fonts are very numerous, and of all sorts of workmanship, from the roughest description to the most elaborate ; but they are more generally rich than plain. At this period the wooden covers were of...ten very splendid and elaborate compositions ; sometimes of tabernacle- work, sometimes representing a pelican, often painted and gilt. And now I close my descriptions of the four styles of English Ecclesiastical Architecture, hoping I have enabled you to fomi some idea, on entering a church, of the period in which it was built. As you seem so much interested in the subject, I intend adding a few more lectures on Stained Glass, Eccle- siastical Furniture, &c. When we meet next, I shall speak of the two most important points of interior decoration (if indeed such a term as decoration can be used for what is indispensable), viz.
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