. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. churches already compared affords, therefore, a criterion of their respective merits inthis respect. We hardly need say that one of the first qualifications of an architect is toproduce the greatest effect by the smallest means. The subjoined table is placed before thereader as a comparison of the four churches in reference to the point in question. Chap. Ill, JAMES I. TO ANNE. 215 Cliurcli. Whole Area inKnglish Feet. Area of Points ofSupport. IRuti
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. churches already compared affords, therefore, a criterion of their respective merits inthis respect. We hardly need say that one of the first qualifications of an architect is toproduce the greatest effect by the smallest means. The subjoined table is placed before thereader as a comparison of the four churches in reference to the point in question. Chap. Ill, JAMES I. TO ANNE. 215 Cliurcli. Whole Area inKnglish Feet. Area of Points ofSupport. IRutio. 1 : 0-261 I : 0-2011 : 0170 1 : 0154 St. Peters at Rome Sta. IVIuria del Fiure, Florence St. Iauls, Eoiicloii St. Genevieve (rantlieoii), Paris 227,06984,80284,02560,287 59,30817,,311 9,269 Iiie merit, therefore, shown in the cousdnctiuii of the above edifices will be nearly as 15,1 7, 20, -6, or inversely proiiortional to the numbers in the last column. 479. We must here mention one of the most unpardonable defects, or rather abuses,which this cluirch exhibits, and which must be learnt from reference to Jig. 214, llierein is SlS^. VITH BUTTRKSSBI. given a transverse section of the nave and its side aisles. From this it will be seen that theenormous expense of tlie second or upper order all round the church was incurred for noother purpose than that of concealing the flying buttresses that are used to counteract thethrusts of the vaults of the nave, choir, and transepts, — an abuse that admits of no is an architectural fraud. Wc do not think it necessary to descend into minor defectsand abuses, such as vaulting the church from an Attic order, the multiplicity of breaks,and want of repose ; the general disajjpearance of tie and connection, the piercing, aspractised, the piers of the cupola, and mitering the archivolts of its great arches, and thelike, because we think all these are more than counterbalanced by the beauties of the edi-fice. We cannot, howeve
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