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Its series of cupolettaa, round the grand central dome, is beautiful, and would have proved eminently effective in execu- tion ; and the variety of views, from the different parts of the building, seen in various lights, as the spectator approaches, recedes, or perambulates its varied scenes, afford a more numerom assemblage of various, beautiful, and picturesque combinations than almost any other plan in existence. " Weale, a moderate and judicious writer, with, if anything, a leaning to the o...ld Gothic, says in his " London " (p. 181): " He was planning what, strange to say, the world has not yet seen a solemn and real Protestant temple, not a counterfeit Roman Catholic one. He would have erected an edifice on the principles and in the spirit of the mediaeval church-builders, viz. , an edifice whose form should be governed, as theirs were, by fitness to the service for which it was built, and by nothing else. " Charles II. And his brother, subsequently James II. , would not give any countenance to Wren's splendid design.
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