No
matter what a building was, if it was three or four hundred years old he
liked it, whereas, if it was new, he would look to nothing but whether it
kept the rain out. Indeed I have heard him say that the mediaeval
sculpture on some of our great cathedrals often only pleases us because
time and weather have set their seals upon it, and that if we could see
it as it was when it left the mason's hands, we should find it no better
than much that is now turned out in the Euston Road.
The ground plan here given will help the reader to understand the few
following pages more easily.
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