. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. nal state of pasture or park-ground ; and cased tlie house itself in a beautiftil gray, or whitishbrick, brought from a kiln near Ipswich in Suffolk. He alsoraised a facade of Corinthian pilasters, built of stone broughtfrom Roche Abbey in Yorkshire; and of which the capitalsprove the beauty and sharpness of execution of which thatstone is susceptible.* A particular description of the interior,together
. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. nal state of pasture or park-ground ; and cased tlie house itself in a beautiftil gray, or whitishbrick, brought from a kiln near Ipswich in Suffolk. He alsoraised a facade of Corinthian pilasters, built of stone broughtfrom Roche Abbey in Yorkshire; and of which the capitalsprove the beauty and sharpness of execution of which thatstone is susceptible.* A particular description of the interior,together with the improvements introduced by the present nobleoccupiers, must necessarily be reserved for the following pages. Ere we enter, however, I must be allowed to present the readerwith the two small opposite vignettes; of which the upper onerepresents the arch-way, connecting the flower-garden and shrub-bery ; and of which the lower is a front view of the Dairy, at theextremity of the shrubbery. * III the Parentalia of Sir Christopher Wrca, p. 299, &c. I find that it wasproposed by Sir Christopher to build St. Pauls Cathedral of the same kind ofstone—there called Rock-Abbey
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