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were covered with with a coat of whitewash which was had been renewed every year from the Commonwealth period. There is a splendid old baptismal font, and the tombs, with effigies of many of the old Knights Templars.
After a look into the Temple Hall, we again went out to the street. We then went down by St Pauls which did not impress me much more than the Westminster Abbey, the architecture being the most noticeable point.
We went inside but it did not seem at all impressive; I stood under the dome and on looking up was only the more impressed by the size of the dome of the Melbourne Public Library, of which I was reminded. I don't remember of any Sydney building in the Roman style except St Marys at Waverley, which is built after the