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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1909)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 114

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f Parliament. It wasto contain seven inner courts, of which the great central quadrangle,running through the whole from North to South, was to be nearly800 feet long by about 380 feet wide—this court, surrounded bymagnificent and happily varied pavilions measuring from 80 to 110feet in height,… … of courts, all quadrangular. The only detail in the whole designwhich has ever been subjected to much adverse criticism was theproposed completion of the sky line with a pair of pepper-boxturrets in the centre of eachfacade. But Jones, like Wren,and Alfred Stevens, and othergreat artists, always…

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