ARCHITECTURE.
TO THE EDITOR OK THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —Can you tell me why tne Borman style of corbels (the support to the dnp-stone over doors and windows) should be neipvtuated in the present day ? Pnbarny the Normans delighted in those grotesque caricatures of the human countenance, nr it may have been the mason taking an opportunity to nay out a lord or monk to waoru he owed a by graving his caricatured hirenoes in when he had the chance. But in this nineteenth century, when such papers as Punch exist, it appears to me that there is no necessity for disfiguring Christian churches with such frightful and ludicrous dbhgureinents~as those which appear as corbels supporting the mouldings over the windows of the new Church of St. Peter’s. If it is a reverence for medisevalism, and a wish to re«t -re its architecture that has been the c.v>-:-. then it seems a mistake to perpetuate .:s gr : - ;u,ness and ugliness instead of its graces ai.d : taut j —I am, tc.y OSSEETEE.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5762, 17 September 1879, Page 2
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172ARCHITECTURE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5762, 17 September 1879, Page 2
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