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| Richard William Church 1885 | Frederick Temple* | 1891 | | ROBERT GREGORY 1896 | MANDELL CREIGHTON | --------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- As regards the earlier periods, some of the dates are only approximate, and certain names are inserted and others omitted with hesitation. APPENDIX B. COMPARATIVE SIZE OF ST. PAUL'S. AREA IN SQUARE FEET OF SOME OF THE LARGEST CHURCHES. Square Feet S. Peter's, Rome 227,000 Milan 108,277 Seville 100,000(?) Florence 84,802 _St. Paul's_ 84,311 Cologne 81,464 York 72,860 Amiens 71,208 Antwerp 70,000(?) St. Isaac's 68,845 Chartres 68,261 Rheims 67,475 Lincoln 66,900 Winchester 64,200 Paris, Notre Dame 64,108 Westminster 61,729 Canterbury 56,280 The Basilica of Constantine was 68,000 square feet. St. Paul's is not so long as Winchester, Ely, York, and Canterbury. Old St. Paul's was a trifle less in area than its successor, but counting St. Gregory's and the Chapter House, my estimate from Dugdale's plan is that it exceeded it. In length it exceeded every church the dimensions of which I have been able to ascertain, with the solitary exception of the 680 feet of St. Peter's. DIMENSIONS. EXTERIOR. LENGTH: Nave with Portico 223 feet. Dome area 122 feet. Choir 168 feet. --------- Total length 513 feet. Length of Transepts 248 feet. Breadth of Nave 123 feet. Breadth of West Front with Chapels 179 feet. HEIGHT: Summit of balustrade 108 feet. Statue of St. Paul, west front 135 feet. Base of hemisphere 220 feet. Golden Gallery 281 feet. Cross (top) 363 feet. Western Towers 222 feet. INTERIOR. Length, 460 feet, of which the Nave is a little over 200. Breadth (excluding recesses underneath the windows), about
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