The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, An Account of the Old And New Buildings, With a Short Historical Sketch
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He next set to work making a great number of sketches, merely, as his grandson says, for " Discource sake"; and one of these was so much appr oved of that a model was again made. But the demand for a building with choir, nave, and aisles complete continued, and required to be satisfied ; and at length one design met with the approval of the king ; and on the 14th of May, r675, Charles issued his warrant to the commissioners accordingly, stating that he approved of this particular design because... it was " very artificial, proper, and useful," and could be built by parts, and that his commis- sioners were to begin at once with " the East-end or Quire." Wren had already become disgusted with the impediments and delays caused by incompetent judges, and had determined to discontinue making his drawings and plans public' We shall never know all that took place during the building so as to be able to account for the deviations from this design. The king gave the surveyor permission to make alterations " rather ornamental than essential," and left the whole to his management, so that the royal commission was chiefly em- ployed as treasurers.
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