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plan, jig. 10, side view, jig. 11, lateral section). It forms a rectangle 150. 
feet long and 72 feet, 6inches broad. Its dome, 38 feet wide, divides it into 
2 equal halves. The middle aisle is 31 feet wide and 51 feet high. The 
cap of the dome ends at a height of 103 feet from the church floor, with 
an opening 6 feet wide. It rests upon walls 3 feet, 8 inches thick. Upon 
this wooden dome stands a lantern 32 feet high. The whole exterior height 
is 148 feet. Although the church belongs to the corrupt Italian style, it is 
yet one of the best conceptions of that time, and if the portal, instead of the 
heavy attic, had a gable, little could be said against the front. 
5. Tas Cuurcu or THE Assumption In Paris. A building of the better 
Italian style and among the most beautiful in Paris is the Church of the 
Assumption, built by Charles Errard (born at Nantes in 1606, died 1698), 
which was commenced in 1670 (pl. 47, jig. 12, ground plan, jig. 13, view, 
and jig. 14, section). The church was completed within six years and is a 
round building, finished upon one side with a portico of disengaged columns 
and covered with a dome 63 feet, 3 inches in diameter, equal to that of the 
church. It is only to be regretted that the drum of the dome is too high, 
and the substructure seems, therefore, too low, although the perspective 
naturally mitigates this effect. This would still more be the case if the 
substructure was either broader or the drum somewhat contracted. In the 
front row of the portico stand six Corinthian columns, 28 feet, 6 inches 
high, the middle ones at 2, the rest at 14 diameters distance. Behind each 
corner column stands a column at 14 diameters distance from it and 1 
diameter from the front pillar. The dome is of wood and its highest point 
is 150 feet from the floor of the church. It is well cassetted and rests upon 
ten pair of coupled Corinthian pilasters, surmounted by a complete entabla- 
ture, upon which the drum of the dome stands, on an attic. 
6. Tae Cuurcu or Sr. Surpice mv Paris. After Notre Dame and Ste. 
Genevieve, St. Sulpice is the largest church in Paris. It is in the 
Faubourg St. Germain and is upon the site where St. Peter’s chapel stood 
in 1211, whose crypt was again employed when the architect Gamarre 
projected a new and larger church. This church was found inadequate to 
the wants of the congregation, and Le Veau, therefore, made a new design, 
for whose execution the corner stone was laid in 1655. After Le Veau’s 
death the work was prosecuted by Gillard, and Oppenoord finished the side 
aisles, the transept, and the northern side portal. From 17380 the architect 
Servandoni continued the work and undertook, from his own drawing, the 
completion of the principal facade (pl. 49, jig. 4, ground plan, jig. 5, eleva- 
tion). But he could not complete the towers, which were to be 220 feet 
high. After his death, in 1777, Chagrin altered the plan again, by bring- 
ing the octagonal towers planned by Maclaurin into harmony with the 
facade; but he did not complete them. 
The length of the church is 360 feet, the width 150 feet, and its ground 
plan is similar to that of Notre Dame. The middle aisle, like the 
side aisles, is 110 feet high. The pillars are 6 feet thick and stand 18 
feet apart. The connecting arches begin 27 feet above the floor. The 
transept, of the same width, is surmounted by a vaulted dome 28 feet high 
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