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 . WREN S STEEPLES. 195. m those of St. Pauls, the upper or pyramidal portion is so arrangedthat iij almost every view its outlines may touch (and be confined_j by) two straight * £ lines meetin
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 . WREN S STEEPLES. 195. m those of St. Pauls, the upper or pyramidal portion is so arrangedthat iij almost every view its outlines may touch (and be confined_j by) two straight * £ lines meeting at the summit. Inlater times allthese rules havegenerally beenreversed, espe-cially the last,our modern stee-ples affecting aconvexity of out-line, whose pro-minent pointsare limited bythe form of apointed arch in-stead of a tri-angle. Wrenemployed thisconvex outlinein the belfries ofSt. Pauls alone,plainly showinghis sense of itsfitness to a situ-ation requiringmore breadthand majesty; infact, a characteraltogether dis-tinct from thatof parochialsteeples, wherehe has given alighter and morefeminine ex-pression by thetriangular out-line. The pro-portions of histriangle varyfrom an equi-lateral to one
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