. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. on a progress through Cheshire, danced here,and that Oliver Cromwell made use of it as a council chamber during the Civil Wars. Having passed through the portal and under the building surmounted by the longroom, we enter a small Court, which is one of the most curious parts of this ancientresidence. There are seven doors open-ing into it; the principal entrance, (thatwhich leads into the hall,) being nearlyopposite to the portal. Besides otherwindows, there are two large gabledbow-windows, which light the Banquet-ting
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. on a progress through Cheshire, danced here,and that Oliver Cromwell made use of it as a council chamber during the Civil Wars. Having passed through the portal and under the building surmounted by the longroom, we enter a small Court, which is one of the most curious parts of this ancientresidence. There are seven doors open-ing into it; the principal entrance, (thatwhich leads into the hall,) being nearlyopposite to the portal. Besides otherwindows, there are two large gabledbow-windows, which light the Banquet-ting Hall, the antique form and curiousglazing of which excite immediateattention. Indeed, the glazing of mostof the windows of the house is veryremarkable ; the panes being small, andjoined by slips of lead, so as to representmany pretty patterns. Upon bands around these windows are the following inscriptions:— God is al in al thing. Thiswindow where made by William Moreton, in the yeare of oure Lorde MDLLT. RychardeDale, Carpeder made theis windows, by the grace of God. *. * The Cheshire carpenters of old seem to have been notsparingly endowed with the noble aspiration. In aninscription on the fine carved oak ceiling of the neighbouringChurch of Astbury, bearing date 1616 and 1617, in which 2 occurs the name of a William Moreton, we have that also ofRichard Lowndes, Carpenter;—his work, however, is of nomean desert. MORETON HALL. One of the entrances from the court, on the right, leads into a small chapel, which,by the lapse of time and disuse, has lost much of its sacred character. Almost theonly indication of its former purpose is a series of tablets suspended on the wallsand bearing inscribed on them, in old English characters, numerous texts of Scripture. The principal entrance leading into the house is closed by an antique oaken door,having a small wicket in it fastened with a ponderous bolt. This door is rendered stillmore impregnable by many a coat of whitewash. On pas
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