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 . ya sham temple, like theMadeleine or churches erect-ed by Wrens succes-sors, Hawkesmoor andGibbs, were more libe-rally built and far moreornate than those of thegreat architect h
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 . ya sham temple, like theMadeleine or churches erect-ed by Wrens succes-sors, Hawkesmoor andGibbs, were more libe-rally built and far moreornate than those of thegreat architect himself,especially their exte-riors, which, however, ? were not, as in later 4?times, enriched at theexpense of the interior. 31! dunstans. 198 REPRESENTATIVE ARCHITECTURE—THIRD PERIOD. Five churchesby these mastersare worthy ofnotice:— St. Marys,Woolnotk, inLombard St.,is the master-piece of Wrenspupil, Hawkes-moor, and byfar the mostworksinceTheseemsbeen originalerectedhis time,exteriorto have designed with aview towardsthe foreseenopening of anew street,which has sincetaken place;and both thenorth and westfaces are wellfitted, the for-mer to its as-pect, and thelatter to itspresent situa-tion. The in-terior is uniquefor a church,and apparentlyimitates Vitru-vius descrip-tion of onesort of ancientatrium. Its great merit is,that theleries,very capacious,are not offen-sive. It seems gal- though. incredible, did. we not see proof of it on every CHURCHES BY HAWKESMOOR AND GIBBS. 199 that a problem of dailyrequirement in mo-dern times should,though solved morethan once, be nowgiven up in despair St. Georges,Blooms-bury, by the same ar-chitect, is remarkablefor the picturesquegrouping of its front,and majestic effect ofits portico, which ison the principle of theancient Roman ones,which style, indeed,this artist seems tohave studied morethan the modernItalian. The crowningof the tower, how-ever, by a pyramid ofsteps, is a sad form is (or repre-sents) the most massiv
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