. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. .sreceived many alterations, including tiie removal of the lofty attics in front and rear, whichhas tended mucii to deprive the stru-ture of a large share of dignity. Its confined and lowbituatioa gives tlie building an appearance of heaviness , it would be free from this, if placedon :ui elevated spot, or in an area ])roporti,)nate to its magnitude. It is substantially builtof Iortland sione, tiie material used in most of tiie erections of this ptr
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. .sreceived many alterations, including tiie removal of the lofty attics in front and rear, whichhas tended mucii to deprive the stru-ture of a large share of dignity. Its confined and lowbituatioa gives tlie building an appearance of heaviness , it would be free from this, if placedon :ui elevated spot, or in an area ])roporti,)nate to its magnitude. It is substantially builtof Iortland sione, tiie material used in most of tiie erections of this ptriod. The finelydi-signed sculptin-e in the pediment, above tlie six columns of the Corintiiian order, was wellexecuted by Mr., afterwards Sir Ilol)ert, Taylor. Many other buildings in and about thecity are attributed to Dance, who died in 17(J8, and was succeeded in office by iiis sonGeorge Dance, another of the first four aiehitLCt members of the Royal Academy Hedesigned Newgate ])rison, with tl e Sess ons House, &c. It was completed in 1778, at acost of upwards of 130,000/. ; besides sulisetjuenly repaiivd under his directions,. after the riots of 1780, when it suffered grcaily from fire. This edifice (fig. 224.) baabecome a chief example of the theory of the observation to apjily to every object a cha-racter suitable to the purposes of its destination {page 224.). The walls, which are con-structed of Iortland stone, without apertures, or any other ornaments than rou»-li rusticwork and niches, are 50 ft. in height. The principal front is 300 ft. in leno-th. Dancealso designed St. Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, built in the years 1782-1784,at a cost of about 40,000/. It is of brick, with a few plain stone dressings, three stories in height; the spaces between the centre and ends are formed into long galleries for tlie females on the western side, for the males on the eastern. The simple grandeur of the de-sign of the ra9ade. the length of wliicli is 493 ft.,
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