Pierson to observe that the openings read as if cut out of the wall rather than as heavy piers supporting a pediment.

WSJ: Prim Grandeur, Elegant Geometries | Charles Bulfinch | Lancaster Meetinghouse | By John Wilmerding

The pilasters culminate in simple Doric capitals, and Doric moldings animate both entablature and pediment, while also carrying the cornice around the building and tightly tying its major blocks together.

WSJ: Prim Grandeur, Elegant Geometries | Charles Bulfinch | Lancaster Meetinghouse | By John Wilmerding

He has suggested a steel frame and a stone outer shell, leaving enough space for stairways, lifts and service ducts leading to the space in the pediment above, and a basement - possibly a nightclub - linking the arch with the existing stone lodges on either side.

BBC: 'Romantic' attempt to save lost arch

From the chesty thrust of its rusticated facade, to the outward curve of the pediment, to an entablature of three blind square windows crowned by six Corinthian columns (repeated inside) and capped with a pair of squat balustraded turrets, the exterior manifests Hawksmoor's unorthodox interpretation of the classical tradition.

WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward