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 . comme-morate persons whose memory a pyramid could not by itself preserve. St Stephens Crypt, West-inster Palace.—This, which5 also called St. Marys Chapelin the vaults, formed the base-aent o
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 . comme-morate persons whose memory a pyramid could not by itself preserve. St Stephens Crypt, West-inster Palace.—This, which5 also called St. Marys Chapelin the vaults, formed the base-aent of St. Stephens Chapel,jamous for inclosing the room;u which the House of Com-nons assembled, from the ac-ession of Edward VI. till itslestruction by the fire of catastrophe, which swept;>ff the flimsy representativeErections of yesterday liketubble, raged in vain against|he sterling reality of the oldchurch-work. The chapel ofhe Plantagenets stood amidhe wreck, not only unscathed,)ut purged of the rude accu-nulations of lath and plaster,md displaying the long-con-:ealed beauties of its mostelaborate and original decora-ion. The right-minded willlot cease to deplore, nor ene-nies of England to remindler, that among the vastvealth devoted to her newDalace of Parliament, nothing could be done with this irrecoverableelic of the days of unpretence and sterling magnificence, but to raze. PASSAGE FROM ST. STEPHENS CLOISTERSTO THE CRYPT. 152 ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE—FIRST PERIOD. it to the ground; to destroy another precious lump of the materialsalt of the earth, because, being a work of the fourteenth century(and therefore in the style of the fourteenth century), it would not assi-milate with—what ?—with the style of the nineteenth ?—no, with anunbuilt design in which it was our fancy to represent the style of thefifteenth. Now, if (as we have seen in the Abbey Church) those whowrought in the styles of their own times could respect the less perfectlabours of their
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