'Willow Cathedral' built by Sir James Hall in his garden

NOTES: This image was prepared for the coloured frontispiece of the 1797 edition of Sir James Hall's 'Essay on the origin, history and principles of Gothic architecture'. In constructing this wicker or 'Willow Cathedral' Hall sought to demonstrate his belief that the earliest stone Gothic buildings were imitations of the natural forms assumed in constructions of boughs and twigs.