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 . o these we will conduct thereader in their chronological order. The Pioa Office, a low apartment adjoining the south-eastcorner of Westminster Abbey cloisters, claims to be the first pieceof
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 . o these we will conduct thereader in their chronological order. The Pioa Office, a low apartment adjoining the south-eastcorner of Westminster Abbey cloisters, claims to be the first pieceof architecture in London, being apparently a part of the monasticbuildings of Edward the Confessor, begun about 1050. This roomis not accessible to the public, nor has it any peculiarity of designthat may render it interesting, otherwise than for its antiquity and forbeing the most neat and well-wrought work of our Saxon ancestorsremaining. Its extent is about 110 feet by 30, divided by a centralrange of eight plain round pillars, with simple capitals, and covered bya vaulted ceiling in 18 square groined compartments, similar to thoseused in Roman building seven centuries before; the only advance ofart, during this long period, having apparently been the throwing off 128 ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE FIRST PERIOD. the disguises of an effete state of civilization, and the return to honeststerling THE TOWER AND MOAT. The White Tower. — This monument is the keep or nucleus ofthe Tower of London, that celebrated palatial fortress, so in-timately mixed up in the whole eventful history of mediaevalEngland. Those who approach the spot with any expectationto be reminded of these associations by any of the old objectsand links between the past and the present, usual to such sites,will be utterly disappointed. No fortress of equal age has beenso transformed; the two lines of walls and towers being weeded ofevery original feature, even to a loophole, and betraying their presenceonly
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