A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 174
stupid and unintelligent,and the German c/i(/2ie at Court had no sympathy with theman who, alone among his contemporaries, represented thenoblest tradition of English art. In 1717 the Commissionersfor St. Pauls insisted on the balustrade above the entablature,in spite of Wrens protest, and in 1718… … I40 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN [chap. VII of Bensons brother, an entirely incompetent and unscrupulousadventurer. The complaint was sent by the Lords of theTreasuryto Wren to report upon. He replied that the charges weregroundless, and that as he was only one member of the board,he referred them for…
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