Decorative Arts: Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts: Chapter XIII: Ancient mansions--danger of modernizing--three characters of Gothic architecture--for castles, churches, and houses--Corsham House--mixing characters, how far allowable--Port Eliot--remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, extracted from the Red Book in the Library of Magdalen College, Oxford--example of additions to the Gothic mansion of Ashton Court

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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts
(1803)

Chapter XIII: Ancient mansions--danger of modernizing--three characters of Gothic architecture--for castles, churches, and houses--Corsham House--mixing characters, how far allowable--Port Eliot--remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, extracted from the Red Book in the Library of Magdalen College, Oxford--example of additions to the Gothic mansion of Ashton Court, pp. 187-188 ff.

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CHAPTER XIII.
Ancient Mansions- Danger of modernizing-i Three Characters of
Gothic Architecture-for Castles; Churches, and Houses-
CORSIAM HouSE- Mixing Characters, how far allowable-
PORT ELIOT-Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture,
extracted from the Red Book in the Libraiy of MAGDALEN
COLLEGE, Oxford-Example of Additions to the Gothic
Mansion of ASHTON COURT.
THE following extract from the Red Book of CO'RSHAM, may
serve to exemplify the impropriety of improving the grounds
without previous attention to the style, character, and situation
of the house.
At the time CORSHAM HoUsE was erected, instead of the
modern houses now placed in the centre of parks, distant from
every other habitation, it was the glory and pride of an English
baron to live in or near the town or village which conferred its
title on his palace, and often on himself. Nor was the proximity
of the village attended with any inconvenience so long as the
house was disjoined from it by ample court yards, or massive
gates; some of its fronts might look into a garden, lawn; or park,
where the neighbours could not intrude. Yet even these views,
in some instances, were confined, formal, and dull, by lofty walls
and clipped hedges.

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