Note 5 — COLUMNIATION.
Reading edition
By way of illustrating these terms more directly by instances taken from well-known modern porticoes which answer to the respective denominations and distinctions above noted, we here give a classified list of some of them:
Distyle in antis. Two columns Three St. Paul’s, Covent Garden.
& two antæ. inter-
columns. Hanover Chapel, Regent Street.
Tetrastyle. Four columns. *Covent Garden Theatre.
Hexastyle. Six columns. St. George’s Church, Bloomsbury.
*St. George’s, Hanover Square.
St. Martin’s Church.
Five *St. Pancras’ Church.
inter- India House.
columns. Post Office.
*College of Surgeons.
*College of Physicians.
*Colosseum.
Octastyle. Eight columns. Seven National Gallery.
inter- Royal Exchange.
columns. British Museum.
Decastyle. Ten columns. Nine London University College.
inter-
columns.
The porticoes marked with the * are simple prostyles, or monoprostyle, advancing only a single intercolumn forwarder than the rest of the building; while the others are diprostyle, or show two open intercolumns on their flanks; except Hanover Chapel, whose portico is partly prostyle and partly recessed, and that of the India House, which is entirely recessed, although its elevation is not a composition in antis; had it been such, it would have been a tetrastyle in antis, that and a hexastyle having the same number of intercolumns, viz. five.