A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke].

  • John Cooke
Date:
1815
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Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C II A PEL*. The interior part and roof of the former Chapel, which was executed under the direction of Mr. Ripley, the surveyor, being destroyed by fire, on the 2d ot January, 1779, has been restored in the most beau- tiful and elegant style of Grecian Architecture, from designs of the late surveyor, James Stuart, Esq., the celebrated publisher of the Antiquities of Athens, and under the superintendence of Mr. T. Newton, Clerk of the Works. Immediately before the entrance of the chapel is an octangular vestibule, in which arc four Statues, namely, Faith, Hope, Charity, Meekness; executed in a capital style, at Coade's Ornamental Stone Manufactory at Lambeth, from designs by West : * For truly classical design, in which no ornament is applied but from an antique example, the Chapel of Greenwich Hospital, as restored by the Athenian Stuart, has no rival in England, I hud al.r.ost said in Italy. So pure a taste, and so charactcristical a magnificence, should be consulted and adopted in all ecclesiastical structures that may hereafter lie erected upon the Grecian Model. Anecdotes of the Arts of Painting, by the Rev. James DttlloWOy. I)