VICTORIA HOUSE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—I have read with much interest in your Architectural Notes of this week the remarks of Lord Gerald Wellesley on the new building which has arisen over the Underground Station at Victoria. While I am sure that a great number of your readers will have experienced the same shock of pleasure as Lord Gerald (although this must, I feel, have been somewhat curtailed by the lack of space in which to appreciate this beautiful piece of architecture), I am puzzled by the fact that where your reviewer recalls a reminiscence of the great Tibetan monasteries and something Chinese in the steep pantiled roof, I was reminded of something Scandinavian which must have inspired the architect in his method.
As far as these matters go, I am entirely a layman. I have, as I am sure have many of your readers who experienced a feeling of gratitude at the nobility of this building, no know- ledge whatever of the practice of architecture ; but the association of ideas which has prompted this comparison seems to me to open up curious speculations in regard to the
ordinary man's mental criticism which may perhaps be explained by some of your erudite readers, and possibly enlightened by the architect of the building himself.—I am,
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