In Bradford Wool Exchange, West Yorkshire, between the ground floor arches are carved portraits of notable people, including Cobden ( the others are Titus Salt, Stephenson, Watt, Arkwright, Jacquard, Gladstone and Palmerston and ( facing Bank Street ) Raleigh, Drake, Columbus, Cook and Anson ).
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The constraints posed by a narrow space and the impossibility of opening windows at the centre of the " piano nobile " ( because of an existing fireplace and its flue ) induced Palladio to emphasise the fa�ade s central axis, by realising a structure with a ground floor arch flanked by engaged columns, and on the upper storey a tabernacle frame for a fresco by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo.
