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THE PRINCIPLES

OF

GC HIC ECCLESIASTICAL

ARCHITECTURE.

WITH AN EXPLANATION

OF TECHNICAL TERMS,

AND A CENTENARY OF ANCIENT TERMS.

BY

MATTHEW HOLBECHE BLOXAM.

NINTH EDITION.

ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY
WOODCUTS.

LONDON:

DAVID BOGUE, 86, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXLIX.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

BEQUEST OF

MRS. MARY DALTON
AUG. 1, 1928

5742 57.47 3

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HE ninth edition of this manual, intended as an introduction

to the study of Ecclesiastical Architecture, has been enlarged not only in the text, to which considerable additions have been made, but also in the number of illustrations.

A German translation of the seventh edition of this work was published at Leipzig in 1847.

The same short explanatory Glossary of the technical terms occurring in the book, which appeared in the eighth edition, has been appended to this.

The sources from whence the ancient Architectural Terms contained in the Centenary at the end of the work have been chiefly collected, are the contracts relating to the building of the churches of Fotheringhay and Catterick, and of King's College Chapel, Cambridge; the wills of Henry VI. and Henry VII.; the account of the expenses incurred on the chapel of the Royal Palace at Westminster, published by Brayley and Britton; and the expenses incurred in building the broach or spire of Louth Church; the works of Gervase of Canterbury, Matthew Paris, William of Worcester, and Leland; and the Ancient Wills published by Sir N. H. Nicholas, and by the Surtees' Society at Durham.

To the Rev. T. F. Lee, of St. Alban's, and E. Pretty, Esq., of Northampton, I am indebted for the loan of drawings from which three of the additional illustrations have been cut.

RUGBY, March 27, 1849.

M. H. B.

"Whereby may be discerned that so fervent was the zeal of those elder times to God's service and honour, that they freely endowed the church with some part of their possessions; and that in those good works even the meaner sort of men, as well as the pious founders, were not backward."

Dugdale's Antiq. Warwickshire.

a bloodie crosse he bore,

The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,

For whose sweet sake that glorious badge he wore,

And dead, as living, ever Him ador'd:

Upon his shield the like was also scor'd."

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

ON THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND DECLINE OF GOTHIC OR