26 On GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 



feet in the rows. Then a number of flender and tapering wil- 

 low rods, ten feet in length, were applied to the pofts, and form- 

 ed in the manner already defcribed, into a frame, which being 

 covered with thatch, produced a very fubftantial roof, under 

 which a perfon can walk with eafe *. 



This little ftru^fture exhibits, in miniature, all the chara(5le- 

 liftic features of the Gothic flyle. It is in the form of a Crofs, 

 with a Nave, a Choir, and a north and fouth Tranfept. The 

 thatch, being fo difpofed on the frame, as not to hide the rods of 

 which it is compofed, they reprefent accurately the pointed and 

 femicircular arches, and all the other peculiarities of a groined 

 roof. The door is copied from that of Beverley. The windows are 

 occupied by a number of deiigns, executed, (by means of fplit 

 rods), in exad; refemblance of thofe which a(flually occur in vari- 

 ous Gothic edifices. Round each window is a border of compact 

 wicker-work, which, by deepening the fhade, adds greatly to 

 the general effed. At a little diftance ftands the fpire, formed 

 of eight ftraight poles of willow planted in the earth, and ri- 

 fing in an ocftagonal pyramid to the height nearly of twenty 

 feet. Various other Gothic forms are likewife introduced, which 

 being of the more complicated kind, will be explained in a fub- 

 fequent part of this EiTay. 



The appearance of the whole, whether feen from within or 

 from without, bears, I flatter myfelf, no fmall refemblance to a 

 cathedral. 



In the courfe of fpring and fummer 1793, a great number of 

 the rods ftruck root, and throve well. Thofe of the door, in 



particular, 



* The roof, being protefted from the weather, is ftill in perfeft prefervation, 

 though it has now flood about five years ; but the windows and other parts, which 

 are more expofed, are going faft to decay, though they have been often repaired. 

 Soon after the work was finifhed, a very accurate drawing of it was made by an 

 ingenious young artift, Mr A. Carse, which it is propofed to engrave for the il- 

 luftration of this Eflay, when publifhed at full length. 



