Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects (14580334208)

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Title: Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty
Year: 1804 (1800s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London : Published by Vernor and Hood, Poultry J. Storer and J. Greig
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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oom into the vestry was made byArchbishop Wake. Before his time there was no passage that way into thechapel, but they used to go out at the side door by the stairs, and descendingtwo steps, went to chapel through the vestry by a door now stopped up, andwhich is converted into a press for hanging the surplices. rOST ROOM. This apartment (so called from a large pillar, or post, in the midst, whichsupports the roof) is a part of the building of the Lollards Tower, and formsa sort of porch or entrance to the chapel. It has a flat pannelled ceiling,ornamented with grotesque figures of angels, bearing shields of arms, scrolls, &c.On the west side looking to the Thames are three pointed windows, and oppositeis the doorway of the chapel, a large circular stone arch, enclosing two pointedones in the Norman style, and surmounted by the arms of Archbishop Laud. (a) Neither the curious original picture of him in the Museum, nor that in the Lambeth gallery, beaifthe least resemblance to this.
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