. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ars wliich wereenriched with sculpture, and the original chimney-piece. Round the room are gnomicsentences, admonishing the judges, jurors, witnesses, and suiters of their duties. Thel)asement story of the salle is, or used to he, occupied as a ))rison. The southern and easternfacades of tliis elegant edifice have lati^ly (1856) been restored under the direction of , who jirobably superintended the internal decorations. . Fig. 246 is
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ars wliich wereenriched with sculpture, and the original chimney-piece. Round the room are gnomicsentences, admonishing the judges, jurors, witnesses, and suiters of their duties. Thel)asement story of the salle is, or used to he, occupied as a ))rison. The southern and easternfacades of tliis elegant edifice have lati^ly (1856) been restored under the direction of , who jirobably superintended the internal decorations. . Fig. 246 is a portion of the south front of the building. The seems almostto have superseded the pointed arch in the leading forms, over which the crocketed labelsor drips, in curves of contrary flexure, flow with surprising elegance. It is only in thelucarnes we find the pointed arch ; and there it is almost subdued by the surroundinT ac-cessories. The connection of the lucarnes with the turrets of the faoade by means of is most beautiful, and no less ingenious in the contrivance : their height fromJ . II J J II I ^^. ground. \IIOV Of lilt rondis, as usual in the style, those in the principal story being, besides, slightly sigmental. Inm the tracery of the parapet it is singular to find tiie quatrefoils centered throughout witli what|j is called the Tudor rose. The arches rising above the parapet, wliich are crocketed and) of contrary flexure, have statues substituted for rtnials The richncssof tlieornamentation ofthe whole is such that we know no other example, except that ol the Hotel de I5our-the-rouldein the same city that can vie with it. The \it, fig. 247, is a section of roof presents little for remark. It is bold and simple, and seems scarcely in harnionvwith tlie rest of the jilace. It is impossible to form an ade<iuate notion of this s|)lendi(lmonument from the figures here given, owing to the necessary smallness of tiie
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