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Gentleman's Magazine 1839 part 1 p.387
ecclesiastical architecture the nomenclature of Rickman will necessarily be adopted.
Mr. Rickman has excluded military structures almost, if not altogether, from his valuable work; but his rules may nevertheless be applied to the determination of their date in almost every case with success; since the architecture of different periods differs not less in the distribution and fashion of the ornaments, than in the arrangement and proportion of the parts.
We are not aware of any instance of Guide-book in which we can seek for an illustration of what has been advanced; but if the reader will turn over half a dozen pages of any one of these performances that may be within his reach, he will find ample instances of the errors to which we have been objecting.
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