. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Westminster Abbey. ness of proportion. The interior ofSt. Pauls is too bare of ornament;but the defect is partly supplied bymarble monuments of various de-grees of meiit. Westminster Abbey (Jig. 150.)is a noble specimen of Gothic archi-tecture. The interior is grand indesign and rich in detail, and themterest which it excites is en-hanced by the ninncrous monumentsof kings, warriors, statesmen, phi-losophers, and poets, which it en-closes. The chapel built at the\rpstcr
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Westminster Abbey. ness of proportion. The interior ofSt. Pauls is too bare of ornament;but the defect is partly supplied bymarble monuments of various de-grees of meiit. Westminster Abbey (Jig. 150.)is a noble specimen of Gothic archi-tecture. The interior is grand indesign and rich in detail, and themterest which it excites is en-hanced by the ninncrous monumentsof kings, warriors, statesmen, phi-losophers, and poets, which it en-closes. The chapel built at the\rpstcrn extremity by Henry honour of the blessed Virgin, isin the richest style of the later. Gothic, and its exterior has been skilfully renovated. Among the parish churches of the metropolis, that of St. Stephens, Walbrook, is distin-guished for the fine proportions and finished elegance of its interior. The stately portico ofSt. Martins, Charing Cross, excites universal admiration; next to which may rank that ofthe new church of St. Pancras; the steeple of which is constructed on the model of the Templeof the Winds at Athens. The other public buildings are too numerous to be described, anda bare mention of them would give little satisfaction. The principal mns of court, and theirsubsidiary inns, are remarkable rather for plainness than magnificence of architecture. The pile called Somerset House () would have a grand effectif its eastern wing were com-pleted ; and this desideratum ispartly supplied by the buildingsassigned to Kings College, Lon-don. The Banqueting House atWhitehall is a memorial of thefine taste of Inigo Jones; and itsceiling is decorated with an a
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