Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners The Orders and Their Æsthetic Principles
Part 10
Among the new subjects introduced in this new edition will be found:—The New Plan and Elevation of the BRITISH MUSEUM—NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT—ROYAL EXCHANGE—ARMY AND NAVY CLUB—NEW CONSERVATIVE CLUB—REFORM CLUB—MUSEUM OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY—MANSION OF THE EARL OF ELLESMERE (Bridgewater House); together with several Plans of Basements, showing kitchens and domestic offices, and conveniences not hitherto given.
List of Plates and short abstract of Subjects.
Adam, R., architect.—All Saints’ Church, Poplar.—All Souls’ Church, Langham Place.—Ancient Theatres.—Astley’s Amphitheatre.
Beazley, S., architect.—Berlin, theatre at.—Bordeaux, theatre at.—St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street; spire, interior, and altar-piece.—Burton, Decimus, architect.
Chelsea, church of St. Luke at.—Churches, remarks on galleries in.—Cockerell, C. R., architect.—Colosseum.—Covent Garden, St. Paul’s Church.—Covent Garden Theatre.
Dimensions of domes.—Diorama.—Domes, table of dimensions of the principal ones.—Drury Lane Theatre.—Dunstan’s, St., in the East, tower of.—Dunstan’s, St., in the West, Fleet Street.
Elmes, Mr., his plan for improving the area around St. Paul’s.—English Opera House.
Gallery, Royal, and staircase, House of Lords.—George’s, St., in the East.—George’s, St., Bloomsbury, its steeple.—Gibbs, James, architect.
Halls, dimensions of.—Hanover Chapel.—Hardwick, T., architect.—Hawksmoor, Nicholas, architect.—Haymarket Theatre.—Henry the Seventh’s Chapel.—Hosking, Mr.—Hope, Mr.—House of Lords, staircase, and Royal gallery.
Inwood, Messrs., architects.
James’s, St., Piccadilly.—James’s, St., Theatre.—Jones, Inigo, architect.
Knights Templars.—Knights Hospitallers.
Law Courts, Westminster.—Lyceum Theatre.
Mary, St., Woolnoth, church of.—Mary-le-bone Church, account of.—Mary-le-Bow, St., church, steeple.—Mikhaelov, architect.—Moller, architect.—Monuments, at St. Paul’s.
Nash, J., architect.—Newman, J., architect.
Opera House, Italian.
Paul’s, St., Cathedral; description of the former cathedral; history of the present edifice; description; compared with St. Peter’s; monumental sculpture.—Paul’s, St., Covent Garden.—Peter-le-Poor, St., church of.—Porticoes, remarks on, by J. B. Papworth.—Pugin, A., architect.
Ralph, his opinion on St. Stephen’s, Walbrook; St. Paul’s, Covent Garden.—Repton, G. S., architect.—Royal Amphitheatre, Westminster.
Savage, James, architect; his justification of the tower of Chelsea Church.—Shaw, J., architect.—Smirke, Sir R., architect.—Soane, Sir J., architect.—Spires, remarks on.—Stephen’s, St., Walbrook.
Temple Church, history; monuments; description.—Theatres, remarks on,—Thomond, architect.
Walbrook, St. Stephen’s.—Walpole, Horace, his opinion of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden.—Westminster Abbey.—Westminster Hall.—Willement, T., painted window by, in St. Dunstan’s West.—Wilson, E. J., remarks on spires by; description of Westminster Hall.—Wren, Sir Christopher.—Wyatt, Benjamin, architect.
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Abraham, R., architect.—Adam, Robert, architect.—Arch, Green Park.—Ashburnham House.
Bank of England, account of; New Dividend Pay Office—Basevi, G., architect.—Banqueting House, Whitehall.—Barry, C., architect.—Barry, James, painter.—Belgrave Square.—Bethlehem Hospital.—Blackfriars’ Bridge.—Bonomi, Jos., architect.—Bridges, London Bridge.—British Museum, account of; description of the new building.—Brooks, W., architect.—Burlington House—Burton, D., architect.
Carlton Palace.—Chambers, Sir W., architect.—Christ’s Hospital, new Hall.—Club House, Travellers’.—Club House, Union.—Club House, University.—Cockerell, C. R., architect.—College of Physicians, Warwick Lane.—College of Physicians, Pall Mall East.—Column, the York.—Corn Exchange.—Cornwall Terrace.—County Fire Office.—Custom House.—Cunningham, Allan.
Dance, Mr., architect.—Dodd, Ralph, engineer.
Eaton Square.
Fishmongers’ Hall; former building; new Hall; interior described.—Freemasons’ Hall.
Galleries, dimensions of various.—Gandy-Deering, architect.—George’s, St., Hospital.—George’s, St., Bloomsbury, portico of.—Grecian architecture, modern, remarks on.—Greenough’s, Mr., Villa.
Holkam House.—Holland, H., architect.—Hope’s, Mr., House.—Horse-Guards.—Hospital, Bethlehem.—Hospital, St. George’s.
India House.—Intercolumniation, remark on the term.
Jones, Inigo.—Jupp, R., architect.
Kendall, H. E., architect.—Kent, W., architect.—King’s College.
Labelye, architect.—Lewis, J. architect.—Libraries, dimensions of some.—London Institution—London University.—London Bridge, the old one; the new one.
Mansion House.—Mark’s, St., North Audley Street.—Museum, British.—Museum, Soanean.—Mylne, R., architect.
Nash, J., architect.—Nash’s, J., House and Gallery.—National Gallery.—Newgate.
Palace, Buckingham; interior; sculpture gallery; state apartments.—Papworth’s remarks on Somerset House; on English Villas.—Pimlico Institution, portico of.—Pitts, W., sculpture by.—Ponz, remark by, on the Royal Exchange.—Portico, St. George’s Hospital;—National Gallery; London University; St. Martin’s; St. George’s, Bloomsbury; Carlton Palace.—Post Office.—Privy Council Office, &c., account of.
Ralph, Mr.—Regent’s Park.—Rennie, J., engineer. —Roberts, H., architect.—Royal Exchange; destruction of the building by fire.—Russell Institution.
Sandby, T., architect.—Saunders, G., architect.—Shaw, J., architect.—Sion Park Gateway.—Smirke, Sir Robert, architect.—Smith, G., architect.—Soane, Sir J., architect, his House and Museum.—Society of Arts.—Somerset House.—Southwark Bridge.
Taylor, Sir R., architect.—Telford, Mr., his opinion of the Mansion House. Temple Bar.—Terraces in Regent’s Park.—Travellers’ Club House.
Vardy, Mr., architect.—Vauxhall Bridge.—Villa, Mr. Burton’s.—Villa, Mr. Greenough’s.—Villa, Mr. Kemp’s.
Union Club House.—University Club House.—Uxbridge House.
Walpole, Horace, his character of Lord Burlington: remark on Burlington House.—Ware, S., architect.—Waterloo Bridge.—Westminster Bridge.—Wellington House.—Wilkins, W., architect.—Wren, Sir C., architect.
York Column.—York Stairs Water-gate, &c.