Bayham Abbey, Grecian architecture

There is, also, another circumstance belonging to Grecian architecture, viz., symmetry, or an exact correspondence of the sides with each other. Symmetry appears to constitute a part of that love of order so natural to man; the first idea of a child in drawing a house, is to make the windows correspond, and, perhaps, to add two correspondent wings. There are, however, some situations, where great magnificence and convenience are the result of a building of this description; yet it can only be the case where the house is so large, that one of the wings may contain a complete suite of private apartments, connected with the house by a gallery or library, while the other may consist of a conservatory, &c.