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Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
Leighs , of Stoneleigh , a very learned genealogist , quoted by Grimaldi in his " Origines Genealogieae , " considered it highly probable that there were descendants of a certain Christopher Leigh , from the circumstance ol a monument to his memory , containing family particulars , having been clandestinely removed out of Stoneleih Churchsince the
g , commencement of a Chancery suit , relative to the family , in 1808 . These circumstances will , I think , be sufficient to prove the advantage of a certain knowledge of Heraldry and genealogy to the legal enquirer , and that evidence , such as that deduced from the examination of monumental
inscriptions and insignia , is of the most powerful and incontrovertible character . That our architects require to be reminded of the valuable aid which they might derive from Heraldry , certainly cannot be denied . One of the greatest defects of modern pointed architecture is the parsimony which rejects or
restricts the employment of sculptured ornaments ; this it is which renders many modern works so poor and naked in comparison with those they profess to imitate ; and this acts as a discouragement to any ingenuity or invention , or indeed to much research on the part of the architect . The pointed stylehoweverwhich it has the advantage of admitting an
, , almost infinite variety of ornament , at the same time , will hardly dispense with it altogether : the doorway requires its arched mouldings or spandrils , the window its dripstone and corbels , the column its capital , the roof its brackets , and the groining its bosses . Some of these , but more
especially the corbels and bosses , are the most appropriate places for Heraldic ornaments . But independently of the assistance which the architect will derive from a knowledge of Heraldry in the pursuit of his profession , there can be little doubt but that the sciences of Heraldry and architecture are intimately connected one
with another . This is obvious from the fact that armorial bearings are among the frequent and characteristic decorations of the ecclesiastical as well as the domestic buildings of the middle ages . Again , from the earliest period of architecture in England , the characteristic features of detail and decoration which distinguish the different stylesmay
, likewise be said to define different periods in our national Heraldry . Thus Heraldry commenced as a science soon after the first crusade , at the time that ecclesiastical architecture was emerging from the Romanesque , and assuming VOL . n . 3 L
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
Leighs , of Stoneleigh , a very learned genealogist , quoted by Grimaldi in his " Origines Genealogieae , " considered it highly probable that there were descendants of a certain Christopher Leigh , from the circumstance ol a monument to his memory , containing family particulars , having been clandestinely removed out of Stoneleih Churchsince the
g , commencement of a Chancery suit , relative to the family , in 1808 . These circumstances will , I think , be sufficient to prove the advantage of a certain knowledge of Heraldry and genealogy to the legal enquirer , and that evidence , such as that deduced from the examination of monumental
inscriptions and insignia , is of the most powerful and incontrovertible character . That our architects require to be reminded of the valuable aid which they might derive from Heraldry , certainly cannot be denied . One of the greatest defects of modern pointed architecture is the parsimony which rejects or
restricts the employment of sculptured ornaments ; this it is which renders many modern works so poor and naked in comparison with those they profess to imitate ; and this acts as a discouragement to any ingenuity or invention , or indeed to much research on the part of the architect . The pointed stylehoweverwhich it has the advantage of admitting an
, , almost infinite variety of ornament , at the same time , will hardly dispense with it altogether : the doorway requires its arched mouldings or spandrils , the window its dripstone and corbels , the column its capital , the roof its brackets , and the groining its bosses . Some of these , but more
especially the corbels and bosses , are the most appropriate places for Heraldic ornaments . But independently of the assistance which the architect will derive from a knowledge of Heraldry in the pursuit of his profession , there can be little doubt but that the sciences of Heraldry and architecture are intimately connected one
with another . This is obvious from the fact that armorial bearings are among the frequent and characteristic decorations of the ecclesiastical as well as the domestic buildings of the middle ages . Again , from the earliest period of architecture in England , the characteristic features of detail and decoration which distinguish the different stylesmay
, likewise be said to define different periods in our national Heraldry . Thus Heraldry commenced as a science soon after the first crusade , at the time that ecclesiastical architecture was emerging from the Romanesque , and assuming VOL . n . 3 L