PART III. 



ARCHITECTURE. 



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SECT. II. OF THE SAXON GOTHIC STYLE. 



This variety of the Gothic may be considered as a sort of 

 medium between the Grecian and pointed styles. The columns 

 here are circular, and have capitals as in Grecian buildings ; 

 but they are not tapered. They are placed in rows in churches, 

 similarly to the Gothic ; but in place of spandrils, or intersect- 

 ing arches, they are, most commonly, joined circularly. In 

 the Saxon Gothic these columns are never used detached in 

 the external parts of the building, and thence never support re- 

 gular entablatures or cornices, as in the Grecian style. The win- 

 dows are wide, circular at top, and placed between buttresses ; 

 the external appearance in other respects is not unlike the pointed 

 style, with which it is commonly mingled, as in the cathedral 

 of Durham, the abbey of Jedburgh, and others. The origin of 

 this architecture is of a more early date than that of the pointed 

 style ; and it seems highly probable, that in their endeavours to 

 ornament the former, they, after various attempts, produced 

 the latter. An indication of their progress in this may be seen 

 by examining the very old church at Dunbar, the abbey of 

 Dunfermline, part of thatof Holyrood House, then Kelso, Jed- 

 burgh, New Abbey, Glasgow, and, lastly, Melrose : or, in Eng- 

 land, as Mr. Milner has shewn, by viewing first the subterrane- 



