- Bonomi MSS 45.87 (verso)
- Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Text on church at Alnwick:
- ink text on paper
- loose
- 15.7 x 11.5 cm
- [text]:
'The church at Alnwick a gothic building
once a beautiful and highly adorned
edifice but now from the injuditious
additions and alterations especially
that usual one of taking away
pillars in order to make the pulpit
more generally seen from all corners
of the church
thusby throwing two archesinto one thus
weakincreasing the lateral pressure endangering
the roof which perhaps on that
account
has been restored in theit was found
ornamental gothicnecessaryto restore in the side isles
however the original oak beams remain'