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The Royal architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker created a monumental New Delhi with triumphal arches, palaces, gigantic government buildings, and sweeping avenues radiating from circles (for easy riot control) — the stuff of an empire meant to last forever.
While the arches are Italian Renaissance, the interior (which you are free to inspect) is Spanish colonial, with formidable carved wooden ceilings and doors, and a ceremonial staircase with frescoes painted by M. Cossío around 1950.
A variation on the theory that democracies don't go to war with each other, the golden arches hypothesis was proved false even before his book's publication date by the war between NATO and Serbia (where the Belgrade McDonald's franchises were promptly vandalized).
The free edge of the operculum begins to expand, but does not yet cover the branchial arches.
Go round to the back of the church to see its wonderful russet and brown stone chancel of interlacing arches, Gothic rose windows, and Arab windows with pointed arches.