of
Architectural Illustration
April 1896
Front Cover:
April 1896
Front Cover:
This is a copy of the April, 1896 edition of this magazine. In addition to the main article, the book contains some news, notes and advertisements. The magazine measure 6 ˝ inches by 9 ˝ inches and contains a total of 36 pages (including covers). The inside front cover and back covers are printed as well. Note: the pages are numbered from the start of the year. The soft cover is securely attached. The cover shows minor signs of wear. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this old magazine is between good plus to very good.
Contents:
English Parish Churches
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Excerpt – English Parish Churches:
The love of home, and the characteristics infused into English domestic architecture by this national trait have already been pointed out in a former number of the Brochure Series.
All English art is largely influenced by, and the result of the same traits which show themselves so prominently in the building of homes. These qualities which we admire in England are the outgrowth of English insularity—and what is this but the homelike influence of a small community, proud of each other yet independent, more than content in their island homes, their village churches, their long low cathedrals, each and all set in the midst of green fields and pleasant tress, nature and man combining to make a perfect whole? The love of home and the love of the country are inseparably bound up together and this is shown in the beautiful situations of all English buildings, great and small, and the care which through generations of every sort of strife, envy and covetousness, have yet preserved to them their settings of greensward and stately trees. In the church buildings themselves as we may naturally expect to find what is seen in the domestic architecture, a distinct national character, indicating the love of truth, and the love of independence, and the carelessness for art for art’s sake alone, and indeed often an utter disregard for art itself as something for which the English temperament has no more appreciation than for music…
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