Note 93 — Chapter VII · THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.

Mr. Pugin is reported to have said (see Mr. Ferrey’s ‘Recollections,’ c. xviii. p. 247), “Barry’s grand plan was immeasurably superior to any that “I could at that time have produced;” adding, characteristically enough, “besides, the Commissioners would have killed me in a twelvemonth.” He allowed that in the symmetry of the general plan convenience was as well preserved, as it could have been under the greatest irregularity.