. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. s form isrectangular, and its general dimensions 450ft. by 140ft.{Jig. 50.) In the centre of one of the short sides is theentrance, which consists of two buildings, each 100 , and 32 ft. in width ; both pyramidal in form, andKing in the same direction, but separated by a passage•20 ft. in width, with a doorway at each extremity. This passage conducts us to a qua-drangle 140 ft. long, and 120 it. wide, flanked by twelve columns on each side, a
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. s form isrectangular, and its general dimensions 450ft. by 140ft.{Jig. 50.) In the centre of one of the short sides is theentrance, which consists of two buildings, each 100 , and 32 ft. in width ; both pyramidal in form, andKing in the same direction, but separated by a passage•20 ft. in width, with a doorway at each extremity. This passage conducts us to a qua-drangle 140 ft. long, and 120 it. wide, flanked by twelve columns on each side, and eightmore on the entrance side, all standing a few feet within the walls, and thus fornung a co-lonnade round three sides covered by a flat roof. A view of a portion of it is given in Jig. the further end of the quadrangle (which rises by corded steps) ojjposite to the en-trance, is a portico extending t\]e whole breadth of the quadrangle, and 45 ft. indepth. It has three ranks of columns, containing six in each rank, is covered by a flatroof, and is enclosed by walls on three sides, the fourth, or that opposite the entrance, D 2. Fir. 50. TEMPLE AT J IIISrORV OF ARCniTKCTUIlE. Book I. I)ein<» open. Tliis is, liowever, closed breast high by a species of pedestals half insertedill the coluiniis, and in the central intercoliimniation a doorway is constructed with piers,over which are a lintel and cornice cut through. From this portico a doorway leadsto an inner vestibule, in which are three ranks of four columns each, smaller than thosefirst described, but distributed in the same way. Beyond this, in Cousins plan, aresundry apartments, with staircases and passages, whereof the smaller central one was
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