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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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Penny Cyclopcedia. Part 92. Article "PouTico." 

 Unless the style adopted prohibits the introduction of sucli feature, 

 a portico is now considered almost a sine qua nun in a design; ample 

 proof of which being the case was afforded by those for the Royal 

 Exchange, the Assize Courts at Liverpool, &c. ; and yet, whether in 

 designs or executed buildings, we very rarely find any attempt at 

 originality, or any fresh comtjinations in regard to phm. On the con- 

 trary, nearly all our porticoes consist merely of a single range of 

 columns in front, and it is fortunate when that disposition of them is 

 attended with the negative merit of there being no disagreeable 

 drawback on the effect aimed at by them, resulting fi'om a mean back- 

 ground to the external elevation. In fact, notwithstanding that so 

 very much depends u]ion them, and almost endless variety may be 

 obtained from them, j5/aH and background — /. e. the interior elevation 

 of the portico — have scarcely any study or attention at all bestowed 

 upon them. We trust, however, that the very excellent article which 

 lias just appeared in the Penny Cyclopaedia — a work which has 

 already more than once obtained our notice and approbation for the 

 architectural information it contains — will not be thrown away upon 

 the profession, but spirit them up to endeavour to get out of their old 

 routine course, and give us something more than six or eight columns, 

 put beneath a pediment. 



When we inform ovu' readers that the article in the Cyclopaedia ex- 

 tends to several pages, we hardly need observe that it is altogether 

 original, for we know of no other work of the kind which contains 

 much more thin a mere definition of the term itself, while here in 



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addition to the information brought together, there is a very great 

 deal of able comment and criticism. Even were there nothing else to 

 recommend it, this article would deserve to be noticed by us on account 

 of the novel and ingenious terms invented by the writer to express 

 clearly at once, of what kind a portico is, as regards its flanks, and its 

 projection from the building to which it is attached. For this pur- 

 pose he makes use of the terms JMonoprostyle, Dtproslyle, Hyptr- 

 diprostyk, Tripws/i/le, &c., the first indicating the simplest form of 

 prostyle, namely, that which projects only one intercolumn before the 

 buildirg; the second, that which projects two intercolumns, and so on. 

 By this most convenient innovation in architectural terminology, — and 

 therefore likely to be generally adopted at once, — the plan of the por- 

 tico of St. Martin's Church, would be clearly described by terming it 

 Hexastyle Diproslyle, that i>, having six columns,or five intercolumns in 

 front and two intercolumns at its flanks, consequently one column there 

 besides that at the angle. A Tripivslyle has of course three open inter- 

 columns at its sides; but the meaning of Hyper-diprostyle requires 

 some explanation, — after which it becomes obvious enough, this term 

 being coined by the writer to express that besides having two open 

 intercolumns, the portico is advanced from the building by an addi- 

 tional space, whether equal to a third intercolumn or not: thus the 

 portico of the National Gallery is described as a Corinthian Octastyle, 

 Hi/per-dtprostyle, and with regard to its interior as liaving a distyle in 

 antis within it, — that is, a recess of three intercolumns, produced by 

 two columns between autas. 



The article is illustrated with a great many plans, showing various 

 arrangements, and is further accompanied with a table of some of the 

 more remarkable examples, which we shall here give, referring our 

 readers to the Cvclopaedia itself for the rest of the article, not doubt- 

 ing that they will procure the number which contains it. 



PORTICOES. 



Class. 



Dodecastyle 



Decastyle 



Octastyle 



Octastyle-Pe- 

 ripteral 



Octastyle 



Hexastyle 



Pseudo-hexa- 

 stvlfi 



Order. 



Corinth. 



Doric 

 Ionic 



Doric 



Corinth. 



Ionic 



Doric 



Corinth. 



Building. 



Chamber of Deputies, Paris 

 University College, London 

 Pantheon, Rome 

 National Gallerj', London 

 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 



Victoria Rooms, Bristol 

 Exchange, Glasgow 



Buckingham Palace 

 Birmingham Town-hall 



La Madeleine, Paris 

 Girard College, Philadelphia 

 The Walhalla, Bavaria 

 Glyptotheca, Munich 

 Great Theatre, Petersburg 

 Church at Possagno 

 Manege, Petersburg 

 Royal Institution, Edinburgh 

 St. Martin's, Charing-cross 

 St. George's, Blooinsbury 

 St. George's, Hanover Sq. 

 Law Courts, Dublin 



Kazan Church, Petersburg 

 Pantheon, Paris 

 Madre di Iddio, Turin 



Custom-house, New York 

 St. Nicholas's Potsdam 

 Bethlem Hospital, London 

 Post-office, London 

 Theatre, Berlin 

 East India House, London 

 St. Paucras' Church, London 



Royal Institution, Manchester 



Post-Office, Dublin 

 Raadhus, Copenhagen 

 Colosseum, London 

 Hunterian Museum, Glasgow 

 County Hall, Chester 

 Wacht-Gebaude, Berlin 

 Front of Roman Catholic Chapel, 

 Finsbury Circus 



Architect. 



Poyet 

 W'ilkins 



VVilkins 

 Basevi 



Dyer 

 Hamilton 



Nash 



Hansom and 

 Welsh 

 Huve 

 Walter 

 Klenze 

 Kleiize 

 Tbomond 

 Canova 

 Quarcughi 



Gihhs 



Hawksraore 

 J. .lames 

 Coojcy and 



Ganilon 

 Voroniklun 

 Soufflot 

 Buonsiguore 



W. Ross 

 Schinkel 

 Lewis 

 Smirke 

 Schinkel 

 Jupp 



Messrs. In- 

 wood 



C. Barry 



F. Johnston 

 Hansen 



D. Burton 



Remarks 



T. Harrison 

 Schinkel 



Monoprostyle. sculptured pediment. 



Ilyper-diprostyle, recessed. Height of columns 30 feet. 



Hyper-triprostyle. Polystyle and recessed. 



Hyper-diprostyle, with distyle in antis, recess within. 



Monoprostyle, recessed, and with order continued laterally, forming three 



intercohunns on each side. 

 Unequal diprostyle, recessed, five intercolumns. 

 Diprostyle, with two inner columns corresiwnding with second and seventh of 



the octastyle. 

 Columns fluted, their height 26 feet 

 Columns 36 feet high. Side elevations of twelve intercolumns on flanks. 



See Paris. 



Columns 55 feet high ; marble. 



Monoprostyle, polystyle, recessed, tetrastyle in antis. 



Mono])rostyle. 



Diprostyle, polystyle, doul)le < ctastyle. 



Monoprostyle, polystyle, recessed. 



Diprostyle, height of columns 31 feet, 



Diprostyle, five arched doors, and five arched windows above them. 



Monoprostyle. 



Monoprostyle. 



Diprostyle, polystyle, a triple hexastyle. 

 Reliefs within portico, height of columns 62 feet. 



A diprostyle, attached to a rotunda. Two inner columns behind the penulti- 

 mate ones in front. 

 Monoprostyle. White luarljle ; columns 32 feet high. 

 Hyper-monoprostyle. 



Monoprostyle ; height of cohunns 36 feet. 

 Diprostyle,' recessed, cohnnus 37 feet high. 

 Monoprostyle, flight of steps in front. 

 Pseudo-prostyle ; height of columns 30 feet. 

 Monoprostyle; floiid Ionic; columns 36 feet high. 



Monoprostyle. Order continued laterally, forming loggias of three inter- 

 columns on each side of prostyle. 

 Monoprostyle, columns 36 feet high, fluted. 

 Monoprostyle; deep recess in centre with steps. 

 A monoprostyle attached to a polygon. 

 Monoprostyle, recessed, with a distyle in antis. 

 Monoprostyle, jjolystyle, recessed. A double hexastyle. 

 Monoprostyle, recessed as a tetrastyle in antis. 

 Four pilasters and two columns beneath a pediment, or five intercolumns. 



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