Complex sentence: The building's dimensions and proportions are on the scale of a fourteenth century cathedral, it is 186 feet long east to west and 112 feet wide, and the architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom based the building on Frankish gothic styles of France.
Split into simpler sentences: The building's dimensions and proportions are on the scale of a fourteenth century cathedral, it is 186 feet long east to west and 112 feet wide. The architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom based the building on Frankish gothic styles of France.