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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 432

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of view, being especially noticeable. Also thetwo-story treatment, to obtain a greater appearanceof size, and the successful proportion and outline ofthe towers and steeples. Fifty other churches claim Wren as their archi-tect. Among them St. Mary-le-Bow (whose towerand spire are held the most… … Plate LVII.—St. Pauls Cathedral, London. 4io THE RENAISSANCE. Of these may be cited the royal palace at Win-chester, the Ashmolean Museum, Chelsea Hospital,portions of Hampton Court and Windsor, Marlbor-ough House, halls of commerce to the number ofseventy-nine, and Greenwich Hospital, the last…

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