Inigo Jones and Wren; or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England (1893)
Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911 · New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 208
for sermons,—the citizens,in rebuilding them, thought only of how they could hear and howthey could see, not the elevation of the Host, but the face of thepreacher. Wren says himself in Parcntalia that his object indesigning St. Jamess, Piccadilly, was to make it so capacious,with pews and… … 2;o b en Z wa! <: Q wa H <o <! pit «-«il]ji;rj; PVrens C/i/irches 191 There was, however, another influence at work, and that tooin circles where it could not be ignored. The kings brotherand next heir, the Duke of York, was a fervent Roman Catholic.He hoped, if ever he succeeded to the…
