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Excerpt from Observations on English Architecture, Military, Ecclesiastical, and Civil, Compared With Similar Buildings on the Continent: Including a Critical Itinerary of Oxford and Cambridge; Also Historical Notices of Stained Glass, Ornamental Gardening, &C., With Chronological Tables and Dimensions of Cathedral and Conventual Churches
The more minute description of the cathedral of Gloucester is offered merely as an elucidation of general principles, which have been previously advanced.
Military architecture, likewise, is not without its system; and its gradation and consequent, varieties may be applied to particular aaras. The anglo-norman square tower, or keep, is as widely discriminated from the smaller octagon.
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