Brighton Pavilion.
"The Pavilion occupies with its gardens about eleven acres and
a half, and is a curious combination of domes, minarets, and
cupolas, looking, according to Sidney Smith," as if the dome of
St. Paul's had come to Brighton and pupped." Cobbett suggests
that " a good idea of the building may be formed by placing the
pointed half of a large turnip upon the middle of a board, with
four smaller ones at the comer." Nor is this description exaggerated in its
ridicule, and he who gazes upon the monstrous pile can
well understand " the intensity," of Sir Walter Scott's
feelings when he wrote to his friend Morritt, then residing at
Brighton (1826) : " Set fire to the Chinese stables, and if
it embrace the whole of the Pavilion, it will rid me of a great
eyesore.""
Extract from "Black's guide to the county of Sussex" (Open Library)
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