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 266
, round all the houses. The columns of thenext storey are Ionic, beautifully carved, but they have sufferedmuch from weather and age. At the top the order is Corinthian.The whole arrangement resembles the cloister of St. Giustina atPadua by Palladio, but is thus summed up in one of the… … The Successors of U rcii 249 the park, lower down the hill. When the Crescent was built thesite of the park was a common. It was designed by the youngerWood, and like the Circus consists of thirty houses. A solidbasement sustains a series of Ionic engaged columns, those atthe ends and in the centre…
