cted for the IrishParliament. The architect seems to have been Sir EdwardLovet Pearce, the Surveyor-General, and he deserves credit fora piece of originality not to be matched in the three Kingdoms.The plan is oval, or nearly so, the wall being plain and withoutopenings except on the southern face.… … TJie Successors of JVren 257 continued by an open colonnade, a handsome portico and pedi-ment terminating the view. Two smaller pediments, witharchways, are at the entrance to each colonnade. The writerof Murrays Handbook thus describes this part of the building :—It consists of a magnificent Ionic…
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 · Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723 · Architecture -- England History
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