The inclination southward, estimated at ½ or ¼ of an inch, is too trivial to need remark. It was the plan of the ancient St. Peter’s as it is that of the present church. “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” I hope, however, we may be spared those wretched translations of Gothic tracery into classic, formed by two semicircles supporting a circle, by which some of Wren’s finest churches have lately been disfigured. |
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