2-888-561 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - the Transept - (Looking North), 1850. View of '...the stately trees for whose especial protection the transept was added to Mr. Paxton's original design. This transept will be roofed in by means of twelve massive semicircular ribs of timber...there will be a clear space above the trees of about 18 feet 6 inches. Each of these ribs is made up of six sections of wood, three being placed horizontal in section (at springing), and three vertically, the whole depth being 17 inches, and the width 8 inches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.