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To present at a single glance a comprehensive view of the History of English Church Architecture from the Heptarchy to the Reformation, and to do this in a manner, which, without taxing too seriously the memory of the student, may enable him to fix in his mind the limits, and the general outline of the inquiry he is about to enter upon, is the object of the present treatise.Instead therefore of entering, as is usual in elementary works of this nature, into a detailed account of all the parts of an Ecclesiastical structure, a certain portion only of such a building has for this purpose been...

This second edition of The Seven Periods of English Architecture was originally published in 1851. Chapters include; Introduction, Classification, Compartments, Saxon period, Norman period, Transitional period, Lancet period, Geometrical period, Curvilinear period and Rectilinear period. Illustrated with twenty steel engravings and woodcuts this is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works...