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EXT in age to the last described is No. 11, very similar to the last in interior arrangement, but rather smaller, its length being 37 feet, its width only 28 feet 6 inches. Notwithstanding this it has four pillars supporting the roof, very clumsily introduced, and probably the first example of supports being so used, though afterwards their introduction became the rule, not the exception.

The external façade is plain, but in good taste, consisting of four plain octagonal piers with bracket capitals, standing in a plain panelled stylobate approached by a flight of steps; the whole design being very appropriate to its position. 12