The object of the present Lecture is to set forth and explain the true principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, by the knowledge of which you may be
enabled to test architectural excellence. The two great rules for design are these :
1st, that there should be nofeatures about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural features are continually tacked on buildings with which they have no connection, merely for the sake of what is termed effect ; and ornaments are
actually constructed, instead of forming the decoration of
construction, to which in good taste they should be always subservient.
In pure architecture the smallest detail should
have a meaning or serve a purpose ; and even the construction itself
should vary with the materialn employed, and the designs should be adapted to the material in which they are executed.
Strange as it may appear at first sight, it is in
pointed architecture alone that these great principles have been carried out ; and I shall be able to illustrate them from the vast cathedral to the simplest erection. Moreover, the architects of the middle ages were the first who
turned the natural properties of the various materials to their full account, and made their mechanism a vehicle for their art
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