A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 146
dome, spring-ing from a heavy entablature on eight arches. The east bayof the centre aisle, and the two bays to the west, are groined,and the aisles have flat trabeated ceilings. The result is that,out of a rectangular room, Wren has got the effect of a churchwith a nave, aisles, and crossing. Mr.… … ST. BRIDE S STEEPLE, FLEET STREET. ii8 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN [chap, vii arrived at his result by pure ingenuity and constructive skill.In fact, the fault of the design, apart from its details, is that itleaves the intellectual scaffolding too much in evidence. There-entering angles of the square…
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