Fletcher, Banister; Fletcher, Banister: A history of architecture for the student, craftsman, and amateur: being a comparative view of the historical styles from the earliest period (London, 1896)

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COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE.

St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, original and ingenious
in planning, and deservedly famous for the great
effect produced by small means within a limited
area. Sixteen columns, inclosed in a square, carry
cross vaulting, and a central cupola, the latter
resting on eight of the columns.

Bow Church, Cheapside, which has the most
successful steeple design.

St. Bride’s, Fleet Street.

St. James’s, Piccadilly. Commodious and
economical.

iv. Amongst the secular works carried out by Wren are :
The Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1679.
The Monument, by London Bridge, 1671.
Hampton Court (The Fountain Court and garden
fapade), 1690.

Greenwich Hospital, 1698 (the two blocks
furthest from the river), combined in a group at
once picturesque and stately.

Chelsea Hospital and Kensington Palace,

quiet brick designs.

4. COMPARATIVE (see page 282).

5. REFERENCE BOOKS.

The student should read the “Parentalia” of Sir Chris-
topher Wren, which contains much interesting informa-
tion as to his life and work ; also consult A. T. Taylor’s
“Wren’s Towers and Steeples,” and ‘ ‘ London Churches of
the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,”byG. B. Birch.

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

(the pillar and portico period.)

1. INFLUENCES (see page 263).

2. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER.

The publication, by the Earl of Burlington, of the designs of
Inigo Jones, and of the drawings of the “Antiquities of
Rome” by Palladio, in the early part of the century, are