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ing the west entrance to the New Corn Exchange, has been rented for some years by the authorities of this town, the lessees entering into an agreement not to erect any building or to make any excavation whatever on the said spot.
The Corn Exchange, formerly the spacious Eiding School,—200ft. long and 50ft. broad,—together with the Dome and Stables attached (these latter alone costing £70,000) were built under the direction of Mr Porden. They were commenced in the year 1805 and finished in 1808. Eastward of the Dome was a spacious Tennis Court, afterwards converted by William IV. into additional stabling for the horses of Queen Adelaide. There is likewise a subterraneous passage from the Pavilion to the Dome, which formerly had an outlet into Church Street, this, at one time, was used by the Prince of Wales and his associates for ingress and egress during the period of their indulgence in nocturnal rambles unknown to the occupants of the palace. The magnificent Dome, measuring 80ft. in circumference, and from its outward walls 120ft., is of the same size as that of the Church of the Invalides, at Paris. There are only a few domes larger in extent in the known world, as the following statement will show:— |
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Pantheon, at Rome...............
Domo Sta Maria del Fiore, at Florence
St. Peter's, at Rome ............
Sta Sophia, at Constantinople .........
Baths of Caracalla (Ancient) .........
St. Paul's Cathedral, London .........
Mosque of Achmet...............
Chapel of the Media ............
Baptistry, at Florence ............
t Brighton Pavilion Dome............
I Brighton Pavilion Dome, to the outward walls
Church of the Invalides, at Paris.........
Minerva Media, at Rome............ |
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