Londiniana; Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including Characteristic Sketches, Antiquarian, Topographical, Descriptive, And Literary
Londiniana; Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including Characteristic Sketches, Antiquarian, Topographical, Descriptive, And Literary
E W Edward Wedlake Brayley
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P dbyGoogk 210 LONDINIANA. wbo had been at work there. The parishioners, notwithstanding the very beary charges which they Iiad so recently sustained^ determined, with the most commendable liberality^ to restore the Church to its former design and character; and Mr. Hardwick, the scientific architect who had directed the late re- pairs, was again employed on this restoration. The simplicity of the design, the depth of the porticot and the great estent of the roof, which, from the great projecti...on of its cantilivers, protrudes far beyond the walls, confer a Tery peculiar air upon this edifice ; yet the very opposite opinions which have been given of its merits by intelligent judges, are not a little extraordinary ; — for instance, Ralph, the architect, in his ** Critical Review of Public Build- ings,*' thus praises it. '* The Church here is, with- out a rivals one of the most perfect pieces of archi- tecture that the art of man can produce ; nothing can be possibly imagiDed more simple, and yet magnifi- cence itself can hardly gkre greater pleasure.
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