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PLATE XXXIV.
StDE-ELEVATION of St. Paul’s.
These plates shew the composition os this noble
building, and its distribution : the motion of the parts
(i. e. their variety and Situation) is very happy, and the
magnitude of the center grand. It is to be observed,
that in so large a building the perspective adds to the
variety of the design : The front is not like St. Peter’s,
evidert'v on an equal line, but by the recedes behind the
pillars Supporting the pediment, (which answer to what
the Italians call a Logio) it acquires a lhadow and
depth. The projections of the parts on the Sides, are
more distinCt and compact than the Same parts in St.
Peter’s. The Situation of the Stair-cases adjoining the
body os the church, is at the same time commodious,
adds to the importance of the center, and breaks the
otherwise too sudden lines of the building.
The height of the Dome is said to have exceeded what
Sir Christopher Wren could have wifned ; but was
necelsary to Satisfy the public. The decorations of the
inside were^ never executed according to the proposed
plan : the Dome is double; the inside Dome being a cone
of brick-work, the outside Supported by timbers, &c.
A
From this, and the preceding Series of plates, our rea-
ders have sormed a general idea, not only of the progress
of the Science of Architecture (which, srom an,
insigniScant beginning, has attained both utility and
magnificence) but also of its leading principles in those
and
PLATE XXXIV.
StDE-ELEVATION of St. Paul’s.
These plates shew the composition os this noble
building, and its distribution : the motion of the parts
(i. e. their variety and Situation) is very happy, and the
magnitude of the center grand. It is to be observed,
that in so large a building the perspective adds to the
variety of the design : The front is not like St. Peter’s,
evidert'v on an equal line, but by the recedes behind the
pillars Supporting the pediment, (which answer to what
the Italians call a Logio) it acquires a lhadow and
depth. The projections of the parts on the Sides, are
more distinCt and compact than the Same parts in St.
Peter’s. The Situation of the Stair-cases adjoining the
body os the church, is at the same time commodious,
adds to the importance of the center, and breaks the
otherwise too sudden lines of the building.
The height of the Dome is said to have exceeded what
Sir Christopher Wren could have wifned ; but was
necelsary to Satisfy the public. The decorations of the
inside were^ never executed according to the proposed
plan : the Dome is double; the inside Dome being a cone
of brick-work, the outside Supported by timbers, &c.
A
From this, and the preceding Series of plates, our rea-
ders have sormed a general idea, not only of the progress
of the Science of Architecture (which, srom an,
insigniScant beginning, has attained both utility and
magnificence) but also of its leading principles in those
and