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Title: The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Weale, John, 1791-1862
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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d magnificent features—theterrace. Shortly after 1576 a new gallery also and banqueting-house were erected. Cromwell resided occasionally at Windsor, and it is but justice tohis memory to believe that he prevented waste. He kept togetherthe endowments of the College, and the landed estates were greatlyimproved in value during his administration. x Windsor became the residence of Charles II., and many alterationsand repairs were made by Sir Christopher Wren. St. Georges Hall was not completed till some years after the deathof Charles. As late as 1701 an account of 1800/. was still open withVerrio for his works at Windsor:—for painting the sides and ends ofSt. Georges Hall and repairing the ceiling, 600/.; for the altar-piece and sides of the Chapel, and repairing the ceiling, 500/.; forthe kings privy stairs, 200/.; for the stone gallery and guard-chamber staircase, 400/.; and 100/. for repairing several ceilings: allof which charges Sir C. Wren passed as reasonable. 862 LONDON. mm
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James II. and William III. did but little for Windsor; alsoGeorge I. and George II. George III. formed an early attachmentto Windsor, but little was done for a long period of his reign. In1800 Mr. James Wyatt constructed a Gothic staircase, which, subse- EXCURSIONS TO THE VICINITY WINDSOR. SG3

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