History of the Modern Styles of Architecture volume 1
History of the Modern Styles of Architecture volume 1
James Ferguson
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For the purpose of rebuilding the church. His successor, Giovanni 8cheml)ri, was equally zealous, and, with the assistance of a grant of about 500/. A-year 46 HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE. ior ten years tV(;)ni tlie funds of tlic tliocese, and the £, n-atuitons hhonv of the villag-ers and othei's, tlie work was so far completed that, in February, LSOO, the parish priest was enal)led to announce from the altar that it was time to pull down the old church. Before the following Sunday not one st...one of it remained, and high mass was celebrated for the first time at the altar of the new church. ^ The leading idea of the design was that the church should be a copy of the Pantheon at Rome, and was adopted principally because it could be built around and over the old church without interfering with it, in order that the villagers might worship in the church of their forefathers till tlieir new edifice was ready for consecration ; — all which was done. Altliough the merit of the original suggestion of the design is due to a local architect of the name of Grognet, the real architect of the building was the village mason — »awMiyiy y|rf t
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