tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post1760870806327596109..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Harrogate, YorkshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-373339362295396562020-08-24T08:57:04.258+01:002020-08-24T08:57:04.258+01:00This is the best Harrogate tower yet: probably it&...This is the best Harrogate tower yet: probably it's the stone and the Baroque detail that do it! I remember reading in an old Encyclopedia Britannica that the most fashionable style then was a mixture of styles, eclectic if you like. With the rusticated blocks and Baroque-like curlicues, perhaps the building is trying to say different things at the same time: the rustication (or leaving a pecked surface) seems to have become mandatory: it's a way I date railway architecture masonry on abandoned railway lines - the smoother the older. If the stone was machine-sawed, was there a machine for rusticating? Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com