The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain / Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the late King

by Inigo Jones

C

The Plant of the Peripteros.

D

The Portico continuing about the Cell.

E

The Circular Cell enclosed with a wall, which in the Temple Stoneheng, to vary the invention, was converted into an Hexagonall form, and in stead of walling it round about, the Architect as said before, left it wholly open, as most agreeing with the nature of the Deity to whom consecrate.

The Design follows.

By the Plants of which said Roman Temples, although it is plainly manifest, from whence the invention of Stoneheng was taken: yet, that it may more clearly be understood, I have, unto the Order of pillars which makes the Portico of the last of those Temples, applied the Architectonicall Scheam by which our Antiquity was formed; whereby the intersection of the severall triangles fully demonstrates after what manner the greater Hexagon made open at Stoneheng, was raised from the solid wall environing the Cell of the Peripteros.