Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by MrFrederick Calvert, engraved on steel by MrTRadclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations . onstructed in the chaste and pure Italian style ofachitecture, it is delightfully situate at Lyth, a township included with Birch, in the parishof Ellesmere, from which it is about one mile distant. This elegant villa stands in a charmingpart of the County, and contiguous to the celebrated wood-fringed lake
Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by MrFrederick Calvert, engraved on steel by MrTRadclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations . onstructed in the chaste and pure Italian style ofachitecture, it is delightfully situate at Lyth, a township included with Birch, in the parishof Ellesmere, from which it is about one mile distant. This elegant villa stands in a charmingpart of the County, and contiguous to the celebrated wood-fringed lake of Ellesmere. Tonge Castle and Church.—In the account given in page 118, we omitted givingso full a description of these interesting objects as they deserve. Tonge Castle is anelegant specimen of the florid Gothic, built of variegated freestone, and stands about threemiles from Shiffnal. It was remodelled in its present style by the late G. Durant, for Evesham, who purchased it from Evelyn, Duke of Kingston. The East andWest fronts are one hundred and eighty feet long, and ninety-two high, the former issurmounted by three, and the latter by five superb domes. The Peninsula on which itstands is bounded by two streams which form the head of the river Werf. Phillips, in his.
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