The Ecclesiologist - v. 9 Author:Cambridge Camden Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: settlers, the utmost amount of carving should not be expended on the interior of a wooden church. Certainly in a country like New Zealand, where hard wood is so ... more »common, and where great powers of wood carving seem natural to the people, if wooden churches are required, I can quite understand that both the hardness of the wood and the superior size of the timber would allow a much more elaborate style for wooden churches than can be thought of in Canada and New Brunswick. What I have been thinking of is a wooden church, to be built under the most untoward auspices and of the most intractable materials, the stunted pine trees of a very cold country. To these my observations mainly apply. It is superfluous to waste your time on discussions about what are more naturally wooden in construction—benches, screens, pulpits, stall-work, andc., and the like. PROPORTION IN GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Proportion in Gothic Architecture. A paper read at a meeting of the Cambridge Architectural Society, March 3. 1848, by the Rev. Philip Freeman, M.A., late Fellow of S. Peter's College, Cambridge, Principal of the Diocesan College, Chichester. Pp. 35. With plans. Thb Cambridge Architectural Society is one for which we entertain an interest greater than for the others that labour in the same field. They are sisters—this a sort of daughter in the study. And it has sprung up in the place of ourselves, in a locality where we would gladly have continued our labours, and to which the larger part of our members look back with fond affection, as the place where some of their happiest years were spent, and from which they have derived mental and moral advantages of no transitory value. The pleasure which we feel in observing that our old pursuits still have their hold on the University is increased...« less