Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2
ii. 108, 181;
adoption magical, i. 68; systematic introduction into France,; at St. Denis, 79; at Noyon, 88; adopted from structural and mechanical necessity, 235; æsthetical reasons for the, 242.
Pointed architecture, claims of, i. 4, 14, 17; love for, 3; said by some to be the property of the Roman Church, 8; Christian style, 9; originally Pagan, 9; essentially our own style, 14; intrinsic claims, 17; beauty of external outline, 26; in Germany, 33, 141; English revival, 36; Italian, 142; a more advanced stage of Romanesque, 50, 144, 145; English, 112, 341; leading characteristics of, 146;