Story book city

[BabsG]

Which book has a temple tower 1000 yards high, a royal kitchen and an oven as big as the dome of St. Pauls?  Thanks for any ideas.

[Rabelais]

Sounds like Gormenghast castle. So it might be Titus Groan, Gormenghast or Titus Alone.

[BabsG]

Thanks.  I will check that out.

[Golem]

This exact same question appears in the Quizzes and Puzzles section.

Someone there also suggested Gormenghast but Peake's work and style is fantastic and any reference to a real place seems incongruous ie. St Pauls Cathedral.

Someone else suggested 'Brobdingnag', and if you look in chapter 4 of 'A voyage to Brobdingnag' from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" you read the following;

"The King's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred foot high. The great oven is not so wide by ten paces as the cupola at St Paul's ..."