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back the greatest contempt for the style they call Goth 



late much lamented James Wyatt was the only Architect with 



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whom I was acquainted who had studied on the Continent 

 preferred the Gothic forms to the Grecian 



yet 

 As the reason for 



this preference, he told me, about twenty years ago, that he con- 

 ceived the climate of England required the weather mouldings, 

 • labels over doors and windows of the Gothic character, Miter 

 in the bolder projections of the Grecian cornices, which he 



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often found it necessary to make more flat than the models from 

 which they were taken, lest the materials should not hear the 

 change of weather to which they were exposed in this country: 

 and this accounts for the occasional want of boldness imputed 



to him in his Grecian desig 



oth ic buildings, 



unite modern comfort with antiquated forms, he introduced 



to 



styl 



which is neither Grecian nor Gothic, but which 



now 



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and must be called Modern 



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thic. 



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detail 



s are 



become so prevalent, that it may be considered as a distinct 

 species 



often correctly Gothic, but the outline is Grecian, being just 

 the reverse of the houses in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and 

 King James, in which the details are often Grecian, while the 

 general outline is Gothic. In buildings of that date we observe 



towers rising boldly above the roof, and long bower windows 



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boldly from the surface 



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but in the inoder 



Goth 



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all is flat, and the small octagon turrets, which mark the cor 



ners 



neither large enough to contain a screw staircase 



small enough for"chimneys : yet this style has its admirers, and 

 therefore I have inserted a specimen, although I conceive it to 



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