Bell, T: Essay on the Origin and Progress of Gothic Architec

Excerpt from An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Gothic Architecture

Many of the local descriptions in the following pages were written within the hallowed walls which they delineate, and the train of thought thus excited, will account for, and it is hoped ex cuse (if excuse should be necessary) any effusion of feeling, or contrariety of sentiment, into which the author might by such adventitious circum stances have been inadvertently betrayed.

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