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A memorial essay introduces a collection of unpublished notebooks, reprinted papers, and travel notes by a nineteenth-century architect, presenting close studies of ecclesiastical buildings across Italy, France, Germany, and the Iberian peninsula. The pieces combine personal recollection with technical description and stylistic analysis, recording on-site observations of cathedrals, parish churches, porches, rood-screens, and regional construction practices. Illustrations and measured details accompany discussions of Gothic form, liturgical fittings, and conservation, while appendices gather shorter antiquarian remarks and miscellaneous architectural fragments from various tours.
“And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof and the walls thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper; every several gate was of one pearl.”