. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. rooms, still remains, and isvery magnificent. It is flanked by two large square towers; and theseagain are mounted by circular turrets of a smaller size: on the topof one of the turrets is still preserved the iron pan of the beacon, an-ciently used to alarm the country. The whole building, which is of the finest masonry, still containsthe great chamber or dining-room, the drawing-chamber, and thechapel, bes
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. rooms, still remains, and isvery magnificent. It is flanked by two large square towers; and theseagain are mounted by circular turrets of a smaller size: on the topof one of the turrets is still preserved the iron pan of the beacon, an-ciently used to alarm the country. The whole building, which is of the finest masonry, still containsthe great chamber or dining-room, the drawing-chamber, and thechapel, besides many of tlie inferior apartments. In all these thefinishing and ornaments seem to be left nearly in the same state thatthey were in the time of this Houshold Book. The cielings stillappear richly carved, and the sides of the rooms are ornamentedwith a great profusion of ancient sculpture, finely executed in wood,exhibiting the ancient bearings, crests, badges and devices of thePercy family, in a great variety of forms, set off with all the ad-vantages of painting, gilding and imagery. In the two principalchambers are small beautiful staircases of very singular contrivance, with. 337 with octagon screens, imbattled at the top, and covered with verybold sculpture, containing double flights of stairs, winding roundeach other, after the design of Paladio. The chapel appears to have been fitted up in a ruder style and ata more early period than the other apartments. In this the sculp-tured badges, &c. are still tolerably entire, and some of the paintedglass unbroken. The cieling is inscribed with the following motto,Esperance en Dieu ma Comforte. The chapel is now used instead ofthe parish church, which was situate about a bowshot from thecastle. Of this one ruined end-wall only remains, in which at pre-sent hang two bells. The pulpit now stands as on a pedestal, uponthe great stone altar of the chapel, and the communion is administeredat a table in the middle of the room. LECK
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