tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post4863279330266068914..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Broughton, OxfordshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-1115765773712996782020-04-09T19:36:24.516+01:002020-04-09T19:36:24.516+01:00David: You are, of course, quite right. I only mea...David: You are, of course, quite right. I only meant that the terms devised by Rickman became popular in Victorian times. But I should perhaps have mentioned Rickman and have now compounded the omission in my post about Longborough, Gloucestershire. It's been in the back of my mind to do a post about a Rickman church (St Peter Hampton Lucy, perhaps, or the one the designed in Bristol) and write something about Rickman, but I've not got round to it and now shan't for a considerable while. While I ponder what I want to say about him I'll add a note to this post and the Longborough one, and offer my thanks for your comment. No apology needed for a bit of pedantry. The great Pevsner sometimes wrote articles in the Architectural Review using the pseudonym 'P. Dantry'. <br />Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-3123876945145364922020-04-09T08:11:51.671+01:002020-04-09T08:11:51.671+01:00A pedant writes: it was Thomas Rickman in 1817 who...A pedant writes: it was Thomas Rickman in 1817 who first came up with the terms EE etc that we now use, so it's more proper to credit the Georgians rather than the Victorians for inventing the terminology! I'll get my coat . . . David Gouldstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446150522362785974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-52708010580667327572011-11-22T08:01:08.354+00:002011-11-22T08:01:08.354+00:00Thud: It must be challenging to make. Hats off to ...Thud: It must be challenging to make. Hats off to you for making the effort.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-75809193470368642512011-11-21T22:31:27.419+00:002011-11-21T22:31:27.419+00:00I love tracery in all its forms and after attempts...I love tracery in all its forms and after attempts at some homemade tracery i appreciate the skills involved even more.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-45539804556512709982011-11-19T22:30:39.722+00:002011-11-19T22:30:39.722+00:00Dianne: Thank you. I'll look out for more trac...Dianne: Thank you. I'll look out for more tracery for future posts.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-74523343108620561572011-11-19T21:09:45.758+00:002011-11-19T21:09:45.758+00:00A great post and now I can put a name to that intr...A great post and now I can put a name to that intricate lace stonework at the top of Gothic windows "window tracery" and it even sounds beautiful!! <br /><br />"Adelaide and Beyond"Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806482148547283594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-77853168393573524032011-11-18T08:33:29.758+00:002011-11-18T08:33:29.758+00:00Chris: Nairn, on the other hand, found the discipl...Chris: Nairn, on the other hand, found the discipline of writing descriptions in the prescribed BoE style too restricting. The two men were very different in background, education, temperament, the lot. It's a tribute to both of them that they managed to collaborate at all. Pevsner's usefulness to the world is self-evident. Nairn has gone off the radar these days, but there's still much to enlighten the reader in, for example, <i>Nairn's London</i>, even if it's 40+ years out of date. It's a shame he didn't write more books before the corrosive effects of alcohol set in.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-77854969748813635242011-11-18T07:49:11.573+00:002011-11-18T07:49:11.573+00:00I arther like Nairn's work too - he was never ...I arther like Nairn's work too - he was never afraid to leap to judgement, something that Pevsner found so annoying he took the Pevsner name off Nairn's volume on Surrey.Chris Partridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883064324795042491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-28847238687448846012011-11-16T14:45:11.179+00:002011-11-16T14:45:11.179+00:00PA/NP: Thank you so much for the unsolicited testi...PA/NP: Thank you so much for the unsolicited testimonial. I try, but I have to say, I then read the work of Ian Nairn and realise it's pointless - he did it all, ten times better than the rest of us.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-6364675595034438972011-11-16T14:30:43.748+00:002011-11-16T14:30:43.748+00:00Super pic, and, I have to say, one of the best des...Super pic, and, I have to say, one of the best descriptions of church windows I've read. Signed: N.Pevsner.Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.com