[67] Or how were stone gables made to fit themselves to a _thatched_ roof? (G. G. S. 1878). [68] A practice now happily _long_ discontinued. (G. G. S. 1878). [69] See Lecture III., pp. 107, 108. [70] See Lecture V., Fig. 122. [71] To follow up these studies well, it will be desirable to have an introduction to the authorities, which may exempt you from a galling system of _espionage_ for many years prevalent in this cathedral. (G. G. S. 1878.) [72] See Lecture V., Fig. 113. [73] See Lecture XII., vol. ii. [74] See Lecture XIV., vol. ii. [75] See Lecture III., Fig. 79; and Lecture V., Fig. 110. [76] See Lecture V., p. 183, Fig. 115; also “Digression concerning Windows” inserted between Lectures VII. and VIII. [77] It is melancholy to think how our privileges are neglected! The Architectural Museum itself is a _perfect mine_ of the finest objects of study; yet how insufficient are the uses made of it. (G. G. S. 1878.) [78] Since I wrote this--eleven years ago--the tide has turned. We are too apt to follow _rages_ and mere _fashions_. We were, when I wrote, becoming too French; we have since got to think of French architecture with a self-righteous horror. (G. G. S. 1878.) [79] For illustrations, see Lecture III., p. 82, Figs. 20, 21. [80] Many original capitals from the Sainte Chapelle are lying in the open air in the gardens of the Hôtel Cluny. The most precious morsels which can be conceived! (G. G. S. 1878.) [81] When I wrote this, they were double-locked in the old _schatzzimmer_, but they are now displayed in the triforium gallery. (G. G. S. 1878.) [82] I mean the Romanesque architecture of _Lombardy_: not that of the _Lombard Kings_, which was probably a mere version of the Basilican. See note on this subject to Lecture I. (G. G. S. 1878). [83] The small secular Basilica, called the “_Basilica Jovis_” built, I think, by Domitian on the Palatine Hill, proves more clearly than any other building I know how directly our churches are derived from the old Halls of Justice. The recent excavations have shown both the marble _cancelli_ which parted off the apse, and the altar within it for the administrative oath. (G. G. S. 1878.) [84] Surely we may claim it now! (G. G. S. 1878.) [85] For illustrations, see Lecture V. p. 199, Fig. 121. [86] For illustration, see “Digression concerning Windows,” inserted between Lectures VII. and VIII. [87] So rapidly do _fashions_ change that, though when I wrote the above I expected to be found fault with for speaking so well of _late_ styles, I am now far behind the age! Sixteen years earlier I had done the same at the risk, nay, with the certainty, of being pronounced a heretic by some of the very persons who now think the latest Mediæval art the best, and that far later than Mediæval _better still_. (G. G. S. 1878.)