The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation (1818)
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854, Armstrong, Cosmo, Byfield, John, 1788-1841, Byrne, Elizabeth Douthitt, Byrne, John, 1786-1847, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Cleghorn, John, Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, Lewis, J., fl. 1818-1823, Matthews, T, Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847, Radclyffe, William, 1780-1855, Roffe, Robert Cabbell, d. 1839, Roffe, John, 1769-1850, Sands, Robert, 1782-1855, Scott, John, 1774-1827, Smith, W. R., fl. before 1832-1851, Taylor, William Dean, 1794-1857, Thompson, James Robert, b. ca. 1799, Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850, Varrall, John Charles, fl. 1818-1848, Willement, Thomas, 1786-1871, Woolnoth, W. (William) · London : Published by the proprietor, J.P. Neale, Bennett-Street, Blackfriars-Road; and sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row · leaf 308
inches in depth, and are therefore not 1 tooshallow, to admit a figure that could hardly have exceeded the height of four feet; and that no cramps or pins were requisiteto stay them, as may be known by the interior Statues not having any. It has been shrewdly remarked by Dallaway, and the remark is… … DESCRIPTION OF THE EXTERIOR. 31 trived, not only to resist the immense pressure of the vaulting- and roof, butlikewise to connect the parts of the building, and associate by their lightnessand ornaments with the general mass. They are each pierced into circles, &c.including quatrefoils and…
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