The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions (1815)
Storer, James, 1771-1853 · London, Published for the proprietors by Wm. Clarke... J. Murray... S. Bagster... J.M. Richardson... and Sherwood and Co. .. · leaf 129
d decoratedwith wreaths and flowers beautifully sculptured. The interior of the library is probably unequalled by anyapartment appropriated to a similar purpose in Europe.A spacious staircase, with steps of black marble, and wain-scotted with cedar, leads from under a piazza to the entranceat the… … 1 1 ^ WALLINGFORD, BERKS. Thxj is a place of great antiquity, and is supposed to havebeen the Gualben of the Britons, and was afterwardsundoubtedly a Roman station. The outer work of thecastle here is evidently Roman, and in a fragment of thewall at the entiance the stones are laid herring-bone…
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