Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions : in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples and pavillions &c. : with plans, elevations and profiles (1747) Author: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751; Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Ancient architecture restored and improved; Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751; Millan, John, d. 1782Subject: Architecture, Gothic; ArchitecturePublisher: London : Printed for John Millan, near Whitehall
Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions : in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples and pavillions &c. : with plans, elevations and profiles (1747) Author: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751; Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Ancient architecture restored and improved; Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751; Millan, John, d. 1782Subject: Architecture, Gothic; ArchitecturePublisher: London : Printed for John Millan, near Whitehall
Gothic architecture (1742) Author: Langley, BattySubject: Architecture; Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, English; ArchitecturePublisher: London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, HolbornYear: 1742
Gothic architecture (1742) Author: Langley, BattySubject: Architecture; Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, English; ArchitecturePublisher: London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, HolbornYear: 1742
Gothic architecture (1742) Author: Langley, BattySubject: Architecture; Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, English; ArchitecturePublisher: London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, HolbornYear: 1742
The city and country builder’s and workman’s treasury of designs : or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved one hundred and eighty-fix Copper plates, for piers, gates, doors, windowns, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney pieces, tabernacle frames, pavements, frets, gulochi’s, pulpits, types, altar pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto’s and stone tables, book-cafes, cielings and iron works ; proprortioned by Aliquot Pars ; with an appendix of fourteen plates of strusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c ; to which are prefix’d the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ; whose members are apportioned by Aliquot Pars, in a more easy manner, than has yet been done ; the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language (1741) Author: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751Subject: Decoration and ornament, Architectural; Architecture; ArchitecturePublisher: London : Printed for and sold by S. Harding on the Pavement in St. Martin’s LaneLanguage: English
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Durham Cathedral: the nave and north aisle Artist Smith, Edwin (1912-1971)
Nave ceiling, St Mary, WoolpitPhotograph: unknown photographer (c. 1950)Source: RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection via
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