. An eighteenth century steeple by James Gibbs. St. Mary-le-Strand, London. Attributed in error on pa^e 86to Sir Christopher A Georgian Church. 87 which he had httle real sympathy ; he drew outdesigns, which still exist, for converting West-minster Abbey into an ItaHan church, just as InigoJones had done with the exterior of the nave ofold St. Pauls, but we cannot be too thankful thatthis suggestion was never carried out. With King George III on the throne our ancestorscontented themselves with dull, but substantialbuildings o
. An eighteenth century steeple by James Gibbs. St. Mary-le-Strand, London. Attributed in error on pa^e 86to Sir Christopher A Georgian Church. 87 which he had httle real sympathy ; he drew outdesigns, which still exist, for converting West-minster Abbey into an ItaHan church, just as InigoJones had done with the exterior of the nave ofold St. Pauls, but we cannot be too thankful thatthis suggestion was never carried out. With King George III on the throne our ancestorscontented themselves with dull, but substantialbuildings of which some hard things have beenwritten, but they were at least respectable andfree from sham, while the churches, although notelegant, were well-built and occasionally pictu-resque, as we see by the perfect little building of thisdate at BiUesley, near Stratford-on-Avon (91). Later there came upon the scene two men who, by their combined influence, were destined to bring some kind of order out of chaos. Charles Barry and Welby Pugin were at once scholars and architects. Though the former Barry and rather favoured the classical stylePugin. he thoroughly understood the Gothic,while Pu
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