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LECTURES

ON

THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT

OF

MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE

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LECTURES

ON THE

RISE AND DEVELOPMENT

OF

Mediæval Architecture

Delivered at the Royal Academy


By Sir GILBERT SCOTT, R.A.,
F.S.A., LL.D., Etc.


IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. I.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS


LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1879


The right of Translation is reserved.
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Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

PREFACE.

Only half of the following Lectures were delivered by me, as theProfessor of Architecture, at the Royal Academy. The first seven weredelivered while Professor Cockerell held the Chair; but, owing to hisinfirm state of health, I being then an Associate, was, in conjunctionwith Mr. Smirke, called in to relieve him of this duty. The eighth andninth Lectures were prepared six years later, after Mr. Smirke hadretired, and those which follow, when I had succeeded him in theProfessorship.

The Lectures are naturally somewhat disconnected; and having beenwritten both at various times and for audiences often changing, may befound in some instances to repeat the same facts and ideas, for which,as well as for too great a prolixity of style, I beg to apologise.

They were written with much zeal; and, thanks to my staff, and to mypupils, my sons, and others, they were magnificently and profuselyillustrated; more so, perhaps, than any such Lectures had ever beenbefore.

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They have lain long in abeyance; but it seemed to me, that “for betterfor worse,” and notwithstanding the lapse of time, they ought to

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