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Another engraving of the same subject by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, was illustrated in [James Elmes], Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century, London: Jones & Co, 1828, facing page 152
The Guildhall of the City of London,
the front of which is designed by the late George Dance, Esg., the city architect. The interior is ancient as high as the cornice, and the upper part, which was rebuilt after the fire of London, is about as ugly an upper story and roof as ever disguised a beautiful hall, and the corporation will be for ever deserving of censure, till they restore the ancient groined roof, the pillars of which are absolutely groaning for their airy partners in lieu of the mountains of masonry that now defile them. This fine and, in spite of its roof, it is still a fine hall is one hundred and fifty-three feet in length, forty-eight in breadth, and nearly sixty in height, and will contain, it is said, about seven thousand persons.
The windows of the principal front are all pointed, which has given occasion to some writers to call the style of its architecture Gothic. It is divided into three parts by four piers, pilasters, or buttresses, I know not which to call them, which are surmounted by octagonal pinnacles. The square parts of these pinnacles are ornamented with sculptural representations of the city sword and mace, and the central part with the shield, arms, and supporters of the corporation.'
Metropolitan Improvements, 1828, page 152
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