From Death in Holy Orders by P D James:
"In his [Adam Dalgleish's] boyhood it had been fashionable to despise Victorian architecture and he had viewed the house with a proper if half-guilty disdain. The architect, probably over-influenced by its original owner, had incorporated every fashionable feature: high chimneys, oriel windows, a central cupola, a southern tower, a castellated facade and an immense stone porch. But now it seemed to him that the result was far less monstrously discordant than it had seemed to the eye of youth and that the architect had at least achieved a balance and a not unpleasing proportion in his dramatic mixture of medieval romanticism, Gothic Revival, and pretentious Victorian domesticity."
Al Krigman
