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done, and new forms are introduced, it will convey the idea of 

 some other edifices; of a play-house perhaps, as does the church 

 of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury ; of manufactories, as do several meet- 

 ing-houses in London ; or it may present such a form as will 

 perplex most people, as St. George's Chapel, Edinburgh, which 

 by its ornaments and singular form excites curiosity and totally 

 destroys the sublime. 



Spires may be erected at much less expence than they com- 

 monly amount to, owing to the superfluous introduction of co- 

 lumns, cornices, and projections, in place of simplicity, which 

 should pervade them throughout. In London there are nume- 

 rous spires composed of parts taken from Grecian architecture, 

 and piled up at an immense expence. Let me ask the unpre- 

 judiced observer who has seen that of St. Andrew's, Edinburgh, 

 which, though after the Grecian manner, contains little or no 

 ornament, whether there be in London any one comparable to it. 

 There certainly is not, though that of the New Church in the 

 Strand, which is among the best, must have required at least 

 twenty times the sum to erect it which such a one as I allude 

 to would cost. 



Landed proprietors ought to encourage the introduction of 

 spires into country villages, as one of the noblest ornaments of 



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