The London City Churches: Their Use, Their Preservation and Their Extended Use (Classic Reprint)

The London City Churches: Their Use, Their Preservation and Their Extended Use (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
0484702564
ISBN-13
9780484702560
Category
Architecture
Pages
50
Language
English
Published
2017-12-25
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
London Society

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Excerpt from The London City Churches: Their Use, Their Preservation and Their Extended Use In rebuilding the City churches after the great fire, Sir Christopher Wren had a unique opportunity which he turned to marvellous account. Living when Gothic architecture had practically died out, he accepted the classic orders, but from them evolved more or less a style of his own, ion don in ancient times was most richly supplied withsuitable for the requirements of the time and climate. He was master of proportion and a most admirable constructor; one of his axioms was that architecture should possess the attribute of the eternal. Being, however, compelled to practise strict economy, wherever charred walls or only the foundations of a medieval church remained in solid condition he worked them into his designs, his ground plan being often identical or almost identical with that of the previous building. In Wren's towers, which are so varied and original, again and again medieval masonry is incorporated. The outsides of his churches are now perhaps as a rule more telling than his interiors, chiefly because the effect of the latter has too often been injured by tasteless restoration. His few attempts at Gothic, although quite wrong in detail, never fail to Show evidence of his genius. 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 Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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