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architectural antiquities.
e. Door to another chamber or chambers, now dilapidated, over the lower room :—
ff. Fire-places.
2. Plan of the west front, and details, on another plate.—The three western
doors, with their columns, mouldings, and thickness of the walls; also the projections
of the buttresses, the stair-case at b, horizontal form and dimensions of the S. W.
tower, with one of the piers, &c. are shown at the bottom of this plate, above which
are displayed the shape and mouldings of the great western arch of entrance, as
seen within side. a. Is the plan of two small columns at the side of the arch.
Above this is shewn some arcades, with three different string-courses, mouldings,
some grotesque corbels, &c. of a compartment of the west front immediately over
the great arch. The mouldings of the latter, both in perspective and section, are
represented at the corner of the plate.
3. The western front in its present dilapidated state, with part of the prior's
lodge, are shewn in the other plate. This facade, in its original state, must have
presented an interesting combination of Norman architectural ornaments ; and was
certainly an elaborate display of enriched door-ways, columns, arches, mouldings,
corbels, &c.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF CASTLE-ACRE PRIORY.
Collegiate anti $artslj Cfmref) of Cimst,
manchester;
by james heywood markland, esq. f. s. a.
The sacred edifice represented in the annexed print, was founded by Thomas
West, Lord de la Warr, rector of the parish, in the year 1422 ; but though much
of the building appears to have been raised during the life of this noble priest, it was
enlarged in dimensions, and enriched in sculpture and carved decorations, by Sir
John Huntingdon, the first warden, Sir Ralph Langley, the third, and Sir James
architectural antiquities.
e. Door to another chamber or chambers, now dilapidated, over the lower room :—
ff. Fire-places.
2. Plan of the west front, and details, on another plate.—The three western
doors, with their columns, mouldings, and thickness of the walls; also the projections
of the buttresses, the stair-case at b, horizontal form and dimensions of the S. W.
tower, with one of the piers, &c. are shown at the bottom of this plate, above which
are displayed the shape and mouldings of the great western arch of entrance, as
seen within side. a. Is the plan of two small columns at the side of the arch.
Above this is shewn some arcades, with three different string-courses, mouldings,
some grotesque corbels, &c. of a compartment of the west front immediately over
the great arch. The mouldings of the latter, both in perspective and section, are
represented at the corner of the plate.
3. The western front in its present dilapidated state, with part of the prior's
lodge, are shewn in the other plate. This facade, in its original state, must have
presented an interesting combination of Norman architectural ornaments ; and was
certainly an elaborate display of enriched door-ways, columns, arches, mouldings,
corbels, &c.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF CASTLE-ACRE PRIORY.
Collegiate anti $artslj Cfmref) of Cimst,
manchester;
by james heywood markland, esq. f. s. a.
The sacred edifice represented in the annexed print, was founded by Thomas
West, Lord de la Warr, rector of the parish, in the year 1422 ; but though much
of the building appears to have been raised during the life of this noble priest, it was
enlarged in dimensions, and enriched in sculpture and carved decorations, by Sir
John Huntingdon, the first warden, Sir Ralph Langley, the third, and Sir James