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Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales (1836)

Winkles, Benjamin, Garland, Robert, Architect, Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851 · London : E. Wilson and C. Tilt · leaf 170

An illustration from Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales, 1836, leaf 170
drum of the dome, and ex-tends to the extreme edge of the cornice. The staircase contractson approaching the gallery to afford room for various passages,through the apertures of which the immense buttresses of thedome may be seen. Mr. Gwilt, an architect who has written an account of St. 20 The… … st. Pauls cathedral. 77 Pauls Cathedral, seems to have exercised the strictest impartiality in the observations he has made relating1 to this great work ; he admitsthat Wren was a consummate mechanician, but as an architect heconsiders him by no means so distinguished. It is obvious toevery one who…

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