The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 221
year following the completion of St. Mary Wool-noth was to see the commencement of St. Georges,Bloomsbury, which was completed in 1730. It is said tohave been the first church furnished with a portico—afeature which subsequently, for a time at least, played animportant part in church architecture.… … CHRIST CHURCH, SPITALFIELDS To face p. 177 HAWKSMOOR 177 St. Georges is good; large and airy, as are practically allthose of Hawksmoors churches, but the steeple is dwarfedby the imposing portico and badly placed, besides beingmade ridiculous (through no fault of the architects) by thestatue of…
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