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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rock of free-ftone, on the bank ofthe Avon, and a way is cut to it through the rock from each ofthe four cardinal points. It was formerly fortified with a walland ditch, fome remains of which are ftill vifible. The ftreetsare fpacious and regular, and all meet in the center of the town*which being the fummit of an eminence, is always clean : itswells and cellars are cut in the rock, and it is fupplied with wa-ter by pipes from fprings about half a mile diftant. It is a finepopulous town, with only two parifti churches, one of which,St. Marys, is a beautiful edifice. Here are three charity fchools^in which 62 boys and 42 girls are taught and cloathed, andfour hofpitals, one founded in the reign of queen Elizabeth, byRobert Dudley, earl of Leicefter, for twelve decayed gentlemen*with an allowance of 2©1. a year for each, and 50I. to a chap-lain; another founded fometime afterwards, by Sir ThomasPuckering, for eight poor women, and two others founded in1633, for decayed tradefmen. But \
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 249 But the principal ornament of this place is a caftle belongingto the Earl of Warwick, ftanding upon the bank of the Avon, ona rock which rifes forty feet perpendicularly above the level of thatriver; and adjoining tc the cattle, is a fine terrace fifty feet abovethe fame level, from whence there is a beautiful and extenfiveprofpect of the river, and of the country beyond it. The a-partments of the caftle are well contrived, and adorned with manyoriginal pictures of Vandyke, and other great mafters. h wasoriginally built by William the Norman. Here is a town-houfebuilt of free-itone, and fupported by ftone pillars, in which areheld the aflizes and quarter feflions ; and this town has a goodftone bridge confifting of twelve arches, over the river Avon.Its chief trade is in malt j and it is a pretty retirement for gentle-men of fmall fortunes, and is frequented by very genteel com-pany. In the neighbourhood there are frequent horfe races.There are rich pleafa

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