The Story Of Architecture In Oxford Stone

Author : E. A. Greening Lamborn
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330579084
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Architecture in Oxford Stone written by E. A. Greening Lamborn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Architecture in Oxford Stone This book is not meant to be an addition to the already numerous guides to the individual buildings of Oxford. As such it could find little justification, since every important building has at some time or other been the subject of a book, in which its history and its architectural features have been exhaustively treated, and there are besides several guides to the city as a whole, in which accounts are given of its chief architectural details with the dates and styles of all the colleges and churches. Not Oxford's buildings, but the science of architecture illustrated by them, is the subject of this essay. As a rule, writers on English architecture draw their examples from buildings scattered broadcast over England; the majority of students must, therefore, be content to make acquaintance with their details through the medium of photographic illustrations, drawings, and descriptions, which are at best a poor substitute for the real thing. Now Oxford, a unique city in so many respects, is unique in this, that all the great architectural types are represented in her buildings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.