1 8 The Art of Landscape Gardening 



stantly be offended, although it may not always be able 

 to explain the cause of its disgust. 



To my profession belongs chiefly the external part 

 of architecture or a knowledge of the effect of buildings 

 on the surrounding scenery. 



Welbeck. As every conspicuous building in a park 

 should derive its character from that of the house, it 

 is very essential to fix, with some precision, what that 

 character ought to be ; yet the various tastes of success- 

 ive ages have so blended opposite styles of architecture 

 that it is often difficult, in an old house, to determine 

 the date to which its true character belongs. I venture 

 to deliver it as my opinion that there are only two 

 characters of buildings: the one may be called per- 

 pendicular, and the other horizontal. Under the first, 

 I class all buildings erected in England before and dur- 

 ing the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, whether 

 deemed Saracenic, Saxon, Norman, or the Gothic of 

 the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and even that 

 peculiar kind called Queen Elizabeth's Gothic, in which 

 turrets prevailed, though battlements were discarded 

 and Grecian columns occasionally introduced. Under the 

 horizontal character I include all edifices built since 

 the introduction of a more regular architecture, whether 

 it copies the remains of Grecian or Roman models. 



The character of the house should, of course, pre- 

 vail in all such buildings as are very conspicuous, or 

 in any degree intended as ornaments to the general 

 scenery ; such as lodges, pavilions, temples, belvederes, 

 and the like. Yet, in adapting the Gothic style to 

 buildings of small extent, there may be some reason- 

 able objection: the fastidiousness even of good taste 

 will, perhaps, observe that we always see vast piles 

 of buildings in ancient Gothic remains, and that it is 



