low-hovelled

Updated: May 14, 2025

He has told how 'in every corner of the land some unseemly disguise, in the Roman or Grecian taste, was thrown over the most lovely forms of the ancient architecture. His indignation was especially moved by the havoc perpetrated in Westminster Abbey, sometimes by set design of tasteless innovators, often by 'some low-hovelled cutter of monumental memorials, or by workmen at coronations, 'who, we are told, cannot attend to trifles. Carter's lamentation is more than justified by Dean Stanley, who has enumerated in detail many of the vandalisms committed during the last age in the minster under his care.

Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey - The English Church in the Eighteenth Century