. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. been held by the all proceedings since that time have passed constantly and re-gularly by authority of the great, or exchequer seal. There are few places (says Mr. Malcolm,) in London, which haveundergone a more complete alteration and ruin than the Savoyhospital. According to the plates* published by the society ofantiquaries in 1750, it was a most extensive and noble building,erected on the south side literally in the Thames. This front con-• Vide Velusla Monumenta, vol. ii. 382 HISTORY OF LONDON.
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. been held by the all proceedings since that time have passed constantly and re-gularly by authority of the great, or exchequer seal. There are few places (says Mr. Malcolm,) in London, which haveundergone a more complete alteration and ruin than the Savoyhospital. According to the plates* published by the society ofantiquaries in 1750, it was a most extensive and noble building,erected on the south side literally in the Thames. This front con-• Vide Velusla Monumenta, vol. ii. 382 HISTORY OF LONDON. tained several projections, and two rows of angular mullioned win-dows. Northward of this was the friery, a court formed by thewalls of the body of the hospital, whose ground plan was the shapeof the cross. This was more ornamented than the south front •and had large pointed windows, and embattled parapets, lozengedwith flints. At the west end of the hospital was the guard-house,used as a receptacle for deserters, and the quarters for thirty menand non-commissioned Guard Houses Savoy Palace, This building was secured by a strong buttress, and had a gale-nvay, embellished with Henry the Sevenths arms, and the badgesof the rose and portcullis; above which were two windows, pro-jecting into a semi-sexagon. The west front of the chapel adjoin-ing had nothing particular to recommend it, the windows and doorspartaking of that wretched style into which the florid enrichmentsof our ancestors had degenerated it, in the reign of Henry the east side was the burial ground, raised fifteen steps higherthan the floor of the chapel; at the south end a small tower, per-fectlyplain, on the east side of a centrical mounted guard. A fewdiminutive trees overshadowed the mouldering walls, and gave apicturesque character to the place. St. John the Baptist in the Savoy. This chapel, in all exterior points of view, is a very humble spe-cimen of the splendid style of architecture
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