London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 142
still worse, as it bears no proportionwhatever to other parts of the building. Fig. 50. is a sketch of the portion of a chapel in the neigh-bourhood of London (and there are many similar chapels to beseen) with a tower placed on the roof, broken or detachedfrom the rest of the building, in… … the expense of which would not be much greater than theother; as extra-timber is required to support the turret on theroof, the value of which would nearly pay for the piers to sup-port the turret from the ground; and, as the latter divides theelevation of the west end into three parts, by the…
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