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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 229

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extended 1152 ft.; and that towards the park, in which the length ofthe bantiueting-house is included, woidd have been 720 ft. With the exception ofWestminster Hall, the banqueting-house (now used as a chapel) was, until of late years,t)ie laigest room in England, its length being 115 ft., breadth… … rebuilding of the edifice for its present purposes. On the ascent of Charles I. to thethrone, our architect seems to have been very much employed. As surveyor of the publicbuildings, his stipend was 8s. 4d. a day, besides an allowance of 461. per annum for house-rent, a clerk, and incidental…

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