. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . EastonLodge, one of the finest residences in Essex, is aseat of the Earl and Countess of Warwick. From1590 until recent years it was the seat of theMaynards (cr. Barons 1690, Viscounts 1766,extinct 1865). The Countess of Warwick washeiress of the last Viscount Maynard. The housewas chiefly erected in 1595, and still retains somefeatures, such as chimneys, of late Elizabethanwork. A large portion of the centre of the build-ing was destroyed by fire, with its contents, in1847 ; it was afterwards rebuilt at a cost of upwardsof jT10,000. At t
. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . EastonLodge, one of the finest residences in Essex, is aseat of the Earl and Countess of Warwick. From1590 until recent years it was the seat of theMaynards (cr. Barons 1690, Viscounts 1766,extinct 1865). The Countess of Warwick washeiress of the last Viscount Maynard. The housewas chiefly erected in 1595, and still retains somefeatures, such as chimneys, of late Elizabethanwork. A large portion of the centre of the build-ing was destroyed by fire, with its contents, in1847 ; it was afterwards rebuilt at a cost of upwardsof jT10,000. At the east end is the chapel, builtin 1621. The entrance hall is a noble room,measuring 38 ft. by 20 ft. There are a singularlyfine collection of portraits, and a good library,which fortunately escaped the fire of 1847. Thehouse stands in a nobly wooded park of some1200 acres. Within the park stands the 13th-cent.,but very much restored, parish church. Thereare traces of old wall-painting on the nave the south side of the chancel, and partly 150. EASTON, LITTLE—ELMDON in the south or Bourchier Chapel, is a handsometable tomb of grey marble, with a beautiful canopy ;on the slab are the very fine brass effigies, inlaidwith coloured enamel, of Isabel York (aunt ofEdward IV.) and her husband Henry Bourchier,first Earl of Essex, who died in 1483. There isalso a good brass effigy of Robert Pyn, priest, In this south chapel are also various costlyand interesting Maynard monuments, the chief ofwhich are those to Sir Henry Maynard (1610),secretary to Lord Burleigh, and to William, LordMaynard (1698). This chapel was restored anda north chapel built in 1881, at a cost of ^^ costly gifts have been made to this churchof late years. Eastwood (2J m. from Rochford). The church(St Laurence and All Saints) is of Norman originand has two fine Norman doorways ; the one onthe south side has the Latin inscription—Pax regatintrantes; eadem regat egreguntes— Peace be t
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