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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 42

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e some foliages, and a lion tearing to pieces a bull, in l)as-relief, and larger thannature. This staircase is half buried. The western flight has twenty-eight steps, and theotiior, where the ground is higher, has only eighteen. These stejis are 17 ft. long, .T in.high, and 14^ in. wide. The wall… … which Ji(/. 25. is a specimen. On ar-riving at the top of this staircase, wasfound another large platform, pavedu itli large blocks of stone ; and at thedistance of twenty-two feet two inchesfrom the parapet of the landing, are themost northern columns (lettered D),originally twelve in number,…

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