An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 107
Decius, ^—^~ = little more ihan half of it is standing. It was 1 10 ft. indiameter; but the intiriorw as fornn.d into ten planefaces, each having a semi-circular recess towards theinterior. A hemisphericalbrick dome was 113 ft.from the pavement. Asemicircular wing, coveredby a hemispherically… … Chap. II. ROMAN. 87 tlie entrance, and was surmounted by a pediment roof. The temple now stands in al)rivate garden. 215. We have reserved for the last example of a circular temple the celebrated Pantheon,supposed to have formed at one time a portion of the baths of Agrippa, and erected aboutB c.…
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