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Survey of London
… Prince approved. It featured a main building, to house a huge miscellaneous museum and picture gallery, that extended … by the Horticultural Society's rent. 215 To the south the huge 1862 Exhibition building was already rising. A museum of …
Survey of London
… Museum, plans 1858 onwards). The London hall was to be huge. Fairbairn and Baker spoke of its 'gigantic dimensions', … But not all were convinced: 'one might as well decorate a huge bloated prize-fighter with Maltese jewellery . .,' 77 As …
Old and New London
… Smithfield to St. 'Pulchre's shape their course, And in huge confluence join'd at Snow Hill ridge, Fall from the … and before reaching the Thames the dimensions of this huge sewer are 14 feet wide by 10 feet 6 inches high, and at …
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… six times each day, with springals and mangonels, throwing huge stones, [and employing] engines with 58powder [and] …
Old and New London
… GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851. "Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation." Milton. Previous Exhibitions … Mr. Paxton's design, as everybody knows, was that of a huge building in the style of a garden conservatory, in which …
Survey of London Monograph
… unique fabric, but it was found impossible to raise the huge sum demanded. Thus it comes about that to the amazement …
Survey of London
… and rising to octagonal pinnacles. It is pierced by a huge rose window set within a semi-circular-headed arch … case in a true French example. The church is vaulted and huge, all in stone, and is dignified and solemn. It consists … slightly wider. The rear elevation was dominated by two huge studio windows admitting north light, and at the west …
Survey of London
… of works. When the shipyards closed they did not leave a huge unemployed Island labour force, because so many workers … adventurous was a scheme of 1836, revised in 18378, for a huge collier wharf running for more than 1 miles along the …
Survey of London
… villas with pilasters and a grand cornice supported on huge brackets) and Nos. 1418 (even) on the north, the latter …
Survey of London
… lancets. The most dominant feature of this element is the huge panel set within a pointed arch with banded voussoirs of … lost its architectural focus, and is now dominated by the huge suspended Rood which was originally at St. Columb's, …