A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 160
uted was, in fact, the result ofmany experiments. The one fundamental idea with whichWren started was the great central dome, and from the veryfirst, as early as 1666, Wren hit on the happy constructionalexpedient of an outer and inner dome, the only possible solu-tion to the problem of making a… … ST. Pauls, nearly as executed, a drawlng by wren.(All Souls College Collection.) 128 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN [chap, vii out the present superb design ; and it is interesting to noticehow again and again he went back on his own ideas. Thesecond internal dome at the west end is a reminiscence of thewest…
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