ABSTRACT
Ebenezer Trotman was an English architect specialising in churches and railway stations. In March 1834, John Claudius Loudon first published The Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building, and Furnishing, and in the Various Arts and Trades Connected Therewith. In this article, Trotman makes an interesting observation when he suggests that it would be better for designers 'rather to modernise the antique than to Gothicise the modern, rather to modify old outlines than to fill up common place outlines with old details'. The outlines of architectural compositions are ruled by precisely the same principles of character; in the application of which, indeed, a parallel representation with the former case might be extended to a considerable length. Designs of this character are now, fortunately, not uncommon in our shops; and are frequently executed, in the soberness of bronze, with much taste and beauty.
