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 254
en space in front of it; but, notwithstandingthis, the portico is handsome, and compares favourablywith that of St. Georges, Bloomsbury, or even with thestill finer one of St. Martins-in-the-Fields. What is notso excellent is the steeple, which, according to a systemwhich James is said to have… … o OO JAMES OF GREENWICH 205 by the aid of which even lesser men sometimes almostrivalled the perfect lines of the great Wren himself. St. Georges is Corinthian in st3le, and is built of stone ;St. Marys, Twickenham, is, on the other hand, a remark-able example of brickwork—indeed, Cobbett ^ calls…
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