Excerpt from The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles of Architecture Prevailing in All Ages and Countries In adopting this extension of the term Gothic so as to apply it to the whole style, it may be requisite to distinguish between round arched and pointed - arched Gothic, or, as it may be more succinctly ex pressed, between the Round and Pointed styles. Whatever term we use, this is indispensable; for Durham and York, Spires and Cologne are buildings of the same class, and must be regarded as belonging to one style: the mere introduction of the pointed arch is too trivial a difference to make such a separation as has hitherto been assumed to exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.