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PLATE XXI. A Perspective of the whole Building, shewing the South and West Fronts with the Steeple. There was at first no Steeple designed for that Church; only a small //Campanile//, or Turret for a Bell, was to have been over the West End of it: But at the distance of 80 feet from the West Front there was a Column, 250 feet high, intended to be erected in the Honour of Queen ANNE, on the top of which her Statue was to be placed. My Design for the Column was approved by the Commissioners, and a great quantity of Stone was brought to the place for laying the Foundation of it; but the thoughts of erecting that Monument being laid aside upon the Queen's Death, I was ordered to erect a Steeple instead of the //Campanile// first proposed. The Building being then advanced 20 feet above ground, and therefore admitting no alteration from East to West, which was only 14 feet, I was obliged to spread it from South to North, which makes the Plan oblong, which otherwise should have been square. I have given two Plates of another Design I made for this Church, more capacious than that now build: But as it exceeded the dimensions of the Ground allowed by Act of Parliament for that Building, it was laid aside by the Commissioners.

PLATE XXII.

The Under and Upper Plans of the Two different Orders of the second Design.

PLATE XXIII. The West End.

//Marylebone// Chapel was built at the charges of the Right Honourable the Earl and Countess of //Oxford//, for the Accomodation of the Inhabitants of the new Buildings in //Marylebone// Fields. It is a plain Brick Building, except the Portico, Coines, Door-Cases and the //Venetian// Window. The Cieling is handsomely adorned with Fret-work by SIgnori //Artari// and //Bagutti//.

PLATE XXIV. The North Side, with the Plan in small.

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