Two years earlier than completion, its notorious “pepperpot” elevation appeared on the frontispiece of Contrasts , an influential tract by the Gothicist A. W. N. Pugin, for example of the degeneracy of the classical fashion. Even William IV thought the constructing a “nasty little pokey gap”, whereas William Makepeace Thackeray called it “somewhat gin store of a constructing”. The twentieth-century architectural historian Sir John Summerson echoed these early criticisms when he compared the association of a dome and two diminutive turrets on the roofline to “the clock and vases on a mantelpiece, solely less useful”. Sir Charles Barry’s landscaping of Trafalgar Square, from 1840, included a north terrace so that the building would appear to be raised, thus addressing one of the points of complaint.
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