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 . op,wainscoted with oak, having on each of its walls two iron rings forchains; and in the oak are cut several names and rude inscriptions,as Nosce Teipsum, Ihsu cyppe [keep] me out of all el c
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 . op,wainscoted with oak, having on each of its walls two iron rings forchains; and in the oak are cut several names and rude inscriptions,as Nosce Teipsum, Ihsu cyppe [keep] me out of all el compane,amen, &c. The next remnant, probably, is the Guard-room,having a curious arched and ornamental oak roof, but its history isunknown. The great brick Gate-house, with its three towers, waserected by Cardinal Morton, at the end of the fifteenth century. Of 744 LONDON. the sixteenth, there apparently are no remains. Next is the Library,begun by Archbishop Bancroft, who died in 1610. It contains25,000 volumes, and forms a gallery round the four sides of a smallcourt, formerly the cloister. The Hall (see engraving, p. 174) waserected by Archbishop Juxon and his executors, and bears the date1663. This was the primate who attended Charles I. on thescaffold. Subsequently to this no remarkable buildings have beenadded. There are many portraits of archbishops, one (of ArchbishopWarham) by THE MANSION HOUSE. Mansion House, at the corner of Walbrook and King WilliamStreet; the official residence of the Lord Mayor, the chief magistrateof London, who is renewed annually. The building occupies thesite of a market, and was begun in 1739, by the elder Dance. Thefacade, which is crowded and overloaded without being rich, hasallegorical sculpture in the pediment, designed by Sir Robert Taylor;which, like the only other ornament of the kind, that of the EastIndia House, being turned to the north, is not intelligible; yet itscontrast with that lately executed upon the Royal Exchange
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