226 Contemporary Evohition. 



gothic is adopted by the zealous and uncompromising 

 ultramontanes of Germany and Holland ; (2) that many 

 columns and narrow naves are by no means necessary 

 features of gothic (instancing the cathedrals of Alby and 

 Angers, seventy feet wide, that of Angouleme without 

 columns, and that of Terragona, in Spain, eighty feet 

 wide) ; (3) that gothic is the style which is par excellence 

 capable of admitting light, some of its structures being 

 almost all window, while Italian churches, like St. Paul's, 

 alone of English cathedrals, is incapable of being photo- 

 graphed internally ; (4) that gothic churches can just as 

 easily be made warm as Italian ones ; and (5) that the 

 altar can as easily be made visible to the congregation in 

 gothic as in any other style of architecture. This writer, 

 on the other hand, fully admits that a real and complete 

 Italian church is a fine and noble thing, but contends that 

 those generally built (or likely to be built by us in England 

 now) resemble mere unsightly rooms. Expense alone, he 

 asserts, would prevent the erection of really fine Italian 

 churches in England, an elaborate stucco ceiling (like that 

 of S. Peter in Montorio, in Rome) being likely to cost 

 more than would a stone vault, even if that stone were 

 marble. 



The other writer, the advocate of " Italian " church 

 architecture, opposes H. W. B., and replies to the follow- 



* Dublin Review, January, 1873, Art. v., p. 105. 



