 He would have turned an altar-slab into a hall -table, or made a cupboard of a piscina, with the greatest complacency, if it only served his purpose. Thus we find that in the north bed-chamber, when he wanted a model for his chimney-piece, he thought...  A history of the Gothic revival - Page 47by Charles Locke Eastlake - 1872 - 581 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...Orford, Gothic was Gothic, and that sufficed. He would have turned an altar-slab into a hall-table, or made a cupboard of a piscina, with the greatest...Westminster Abbey. He found a pattern for the piers of his garden gate in the choir of Ely Cathedral." * " Works of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford," in five volumes,... | |
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