. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ofwhom we shall name. 522. Robert IMylne, the descendant of a race of master masons and architects in Scot-land, designed Blackfriars Bridge, having been tlie successful competitor, a preference heobtained while yet unknown and abroad. It was built between the years 1760 and 1768,at an expense of 152,840/., a sum which was said to be somewhat less than his was voted an annual salary of 300/. and a percentage on tlie money laid out ; but
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ofwhom we shall name. 522. Robert IMylne, the descendant of a race of master masons and architects in Scot-land, designed Blackfriars Bridge, having been tlie successful competitor, a preference heobtained while yet unknown and abroad. It was built between the years 1760 and 1768,at an expense of 152,840/., a sum which was said to be somewhat less than his was voted an annual salary of 300/. and a percentage on tlie money laid out ; but toobtain his commission of 5 per cent, he had a long struggle with the city authorities, hisclaims not being allowed until 1776. This bridge was pulled down in 1865. At the timewhen the designs were under consideration, a long controversy on the questions of exhibited, and safety in employing elliptic, in place of semicircular, arches, which hadbeen u)) to that time used in England for bridges. He was surveyor to the dean and chapterof St. Pauls, London, and is said to have placed in that building, over the entrance to the. 111. GEORGE III. 229 Ihoir, tlie mLiiiori;il tablet witli the celei)iat(.d inscription {pur. 482) to tlic nieniory of Wren,lately removed. He was appointed, in 176i, engineer to the New River Conijjany; and dyingin 1811, was buried in tlie crypt of the cathedral, near to the grave of Sir C. Wren. 52:5. George , being nominated, in 17;53, by the corporation of the city of London,to the oftice of cljrk of the City Works, and appointed thereto in December 17;i5, de-signed St. Lukes Church, Old-Street; St. I^eonards Church, Shoreditch, a bold exampleof the Doric order; and the Mansion House, or official residence of the Lord JMayor furthe time being, during the years , at a cost of about 42,039/. This edifice many alterations, including tiie removal of the lofty attics in front and rear, whichhas tended mucii to
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