Identifier: newdisplayofbeau02lond (find matches)
Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ment. H O h K A M. This is the celebrated feat of the countef3 ©f Leicefter, andis fituated about two miles from ^Velles. It was built by thelate Earl of Leicefter, and is a moft noble manfion. It appearsthe moft magnificent when approached on the fouth-fide. Thefirft objects that prefent themfelves that way are a few fmallclumps of trees, which fketch out the way to the triumphalarch, under which the road runs. This ftructure is in a beauti-ful tafte, and finifhed in an elegant manner: it is extremelylight, and the white flint ruftics have a fine effect. A narrowplantation on each Frde a bread vifto, leads from hence to theobelifk, a mile and a half. At the bottom of the hill on whichthe obelifk ftands, are the two porters lodges, fmall, but veryneat ftructures. Rifing with the hill, you approach the obelifk,through a very fine plantation ; and nothing can be attendedwith a better effect, than the viftos opening at once. Thereare eight, i. To the fouih front of the houfe. 2. To Hol-
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 43 kam church, on the top of a fteep hill, covered with wood ;a molt beautiful objedX 3. To the village of Welles, a parcel offcattered houfes appearing in the wood. 4. To the triumphalarch. The reft of the viftos are to diftant plantations. The houfe may be faid to confift of five quadrangles, the cen-ter, and the four wings: not that they are fquares, but the termis ufed to convey a general idea. Each of the two fronts prefcnta center and two wings. That on the fouth, and the grand ap-proach, is as beautiful, light, and elegant a building, as can beviewed. The portico is in a fine tafte, and the Corinthian pil-lars beautifully proportioned. This central front is diftinguifhedby lightnefs, elegance, and proportion. The fouth front con-fills of one row of Venetian windows, over another of commonfaihes in the rufticks. You enter what is called the great Hallt which is a cube of48 feet, In which are eighteen very large and magnificent Co-rinthian pillars. The ha

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