Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/detailsofgothica02coll ^ ^uzP^f^K ^cr ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ PREFACE. To the Architectural Student, who is earnestly seeking to gain a knowledge of the principles which guided the Master Masons of the Middle Ages in the erection and develop- ment of their glorious buildings, nothing can be more acceptable or of a greater service to him than representing in detail their mode of forming and setting out the smallest matters connected with their works, for it is only by studying in this manner that he can hope ever to arrive :it a thorough knowledge of Gothic Architecture. "With this object in view, both from the commencement of the "Gothic Ornaments" and also throughout the present "Work, I have endeavoured to elucidate every part that I have represented clearly and distinctly, and at as large a scale as the size of the book would allow. — In the two Works I have now completed four volumes containing altogether upward* — of four hundred plates developing, in the first, Foliated Ornament and Coloured Decoration, and in the last, more particularly the constructive and practical " Details of Gothic Architec- ture." The manner in which they have been received by the Profession, and the many very flattering encomiums which have been passed upon them during the ten years that I have now been engaged upon them, assures me that I have not been labouring altogether in vain, and that they will not fail to become a welcome addition to the library of the Architect. Upon issuing the Prospectus of " The Details," I stated that it was not my intention to interfere with the "Analysis of Gothic Architecture," by Messrs. Brandon, but that I should endeavour to more fully elucidate such features as were only paitially developed by them. To this I have adhered, and rather than interfering, it will be found that one work will be a great assistance to the other, and the possessor of one will find it to his advantage to procure the other. have, however, to apologise to my Subscribers for the slow and irregular manner that I the latter portion of the present "Work has been published, but other more pressing professional engagements have so fully occupied my time of late, that I have been reluctantly prevented from issuing the numbers with that regularity that I have always hitherto done. have most particularly to thank my friends for the assistance they have been to me in 1 supplying many valuable Examples, which have appeared in the present Work, more especially to Mr. Ewan Christian ; his nephew, Mr. J. H. Christian, and Mr. C. H. Purday, for several Drawings of parts of St. Mary's Church, Beverley, as well as some others. To Mr. Charles Hansom, of Clifton, and Mr. A. M. Dunn, for his Drawings of the Tower, at Waterleigh ; Cross, at Dundry, &c. To Mr. T. .J. Willson, for the beautiful font at GreeUell. and Pulpit at Tupholme. To the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, for the loan of Messrs. Hirst & Gabriel's Drawings of the Sedilia, at Bitton. To Mr. J. D. Wyatt, for many interesting Drawings and Sketches, and to several other friendswho have kindlylent me various Drawings and Sketches, to all of whom I again tender my sincere thanks for their assistance. J. K. C. September \Gth, 18-r>G.