The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . of the Hall, and additionof modern Gothic works, took place between 1836 and these nor the old parts are visible from the street, beingconcealed by houses and shops. Custom House
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . of the Hall, and additionof modern Gothic works, took place between 1836 and these nor the old parts are visible from the street, beingconcealed by houses and shops. Custom House, between London Bridge and the Tower.—Thesixth building for the same purpose, on this site. There was onebefore 1385, when it was rebuilt by John Churchman, sheriff. TheCustom House destroyed in the Great Fire was the third, and thatwhich Sir C. Wren built to replace it, was destroyed in the samemanner in 1718, and was rebuilt by Ripley, who supplanted him in theoffice of surveyor-general, and whose Admiralty still disfigures White-hall. This structure escaped longer than any of its predecessors,but fell before a similar calamity in 1814; to be replaced by thepresent huge pile, which (it will perhaps hardly be believed) is con-structed on precisely the same bricklayers routine, just as liable asever to another conflagration. The foundations being defective, the PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS. 721. THE CUSTOM HOUSE. central parts were again taken down and rebuilt by Sir R. Smirke,who gave the river front its present appearance. The principalroom, called the Long Room, is well proportioned, 190 ft. by 66,covered by three low cupola-shaped ceilings. The extent of thewhole building is 490 ft. by 108. The quay is almost the only river-sidewalk in London open to the public. (See also article «Customs, 114—123, and 297—339.) The revenue collected here amounts to nearly half that collected fromcustoms throughout Great Britain. In illustration of the increasein this branch of the
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