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DESCRIPTION' OF THE PLATES.
azure, between* in cbief, three stags’ lieads caboshed, gules, attired or ; and in
base three pheons, two and one, scible ; a mitre labelled of the fourth.* No. 2
shews one of the niches at the corner of the parapet, which is very elegantly
designed, with buttresses, pinnacles, and crockets; the parapet-mouldings are
drawn one-sixth the full size.
The Common Hall, Entrance-Gateway, and the Chain-Gate.
Plate XII. is a Ground-plan of the Entrance-Gateway to the Close, on
the right, which is groined; from the street are two entrances, a carriage-
way and a foot-way, see A B, and one arch leads into the Close. From
this gateway a door opens to the left into a room E F, which probably
served as a beer-cellar; it communicates with the Hall above, by a circular
staircase out of one of the four arched recesses in the north wall, and with
the Close by two doors, one on either side of the building projecting to the
north, which contains the Great Staircase. I is vaulting under the stairs.
G H is vaulting under the kitchen, which communicates with other offices to the
west, where we may presume the Bakehouse was situated. Out of the Entrance-
Gateway, another door opens to the east, into what we may safely presume to
have been one of the principals’ dwellings, which is the first house of the east
row, and fronts the street; the small oriel is situated in the south gable of this
house. See Plate VI. At C D, under the Tower, is the Porch leading to the
Great Staircase, which is richly groined ; the details are given in Plate XXV. to
a larger scale. To the south is the Chain-Gate, or the Close-Hall-Gate, built by
Beckington over the road, before described. The centre archway is an oblong
parallelogram, and is groined similarly to the Entrance-Gateway, except that in
the centre is a panel containing the Arms of Beckington on a shield, with his
rebus on each side, which is given at large in Plate XXV. Details of the
Piers are given one-eighth the full size, and are referred by letters. References
to the various rooms, &c., are also engraved on the Plate for convenience.
Plate XIII. is the First-fioor Plan of the same portion : it shews the
Common Hall; to the west of which is the Kitchen, &c.; to the north is the
Grand Staircase before referred to, it leads from the Close to the Hall, the
ceiling ofwhich is here shewn. In the Tower, and immediately over the Porch,
is the Muniment Room, the only entrance to which is from the Hall by a small
circular staircase E, into a room over the Great Staircase, and out of the other
A Journal cf one of tlie suite of Beckington, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, 1828, p. lxvii.
DESCRIPTION' OF THE PLATES.
azure, between* in cbief, three stags’ lieads caboshed, gules, attired or ; and in
base three pheons, two and one, scible ; a mitre labelled of the fourth.* No. 2
shews one of the niches at the corner of the parapet, which is very elegantly
designed, with buttresses, pinnacles, and crockets; the parapet-mouldings are
drawn one-sixth the full size.
The Common Hall, Entrance-Gateway, and the Chain-Gate.
Plate XII. is a Ground-plan of the Entrance-Gateway to the Close, on
the right, which is groined; from the street are two entrances, a carriage-
way and a foot-way, see A B, and one arch leads into the Close. From
this gateway a door opens to the left into a room E F, which probably
served as a beer-cellar; it communicates with the Hall above, by a circular
staircase out of one of the four arched recesses in the north wall, and with
the Close by two doors, one on either side of the building projecting to the
north, which contains the Great Staircase. I is vaulting under the stairs.
G H is vaulting under the kitchen, which communicates with other offices to the
west, where we may presume the Bakehouse was situated. Out of the Entrance-
Gateway, another door opens to the east, into what we may safely presume to
have been one of the principals’ dwellings, which is the first house of the east
row, and fronts the street; the small oriel is situated in the south gable of this
house. See Plate VI. At C D, under the Tower, is the Porch leading to the
Great Staircase, which is richly groined ; the details are given in Plate XXV. to
a larger scale. To the south is the Chain-Gate, or the Close-Hall-Gate, built by
Beckington over the road, before described. The centre archway is an oblong
parallelogram, and is groined similarly to the Entrance-Gateway, except that in
the centre is a panel containing the Arms of Beckington on a shield, with his
rebus on each side, which is given at large in Plate XXV. Details of the
Piers are given one-eighth the full size, and are referred by letters. References
to the various rooms, &c., are also engraved on the Plate for convenience.
Plate XIII. is the First-fioor Plan of the same portion : it shews the
Common Hall; to the west of which is the Kitchen, &c.; to the north is the
Grand Staircase before referred to, it leads from the Close to the Hall, the
ceiling ofwhich is here shewn. In the Tower, and immediately over the Porch,
is the Muniment Room, the only entrance to which is from the Hall by a small
circular staircase E, into a room over the Great Staircase, and out of the other
A Journal cf one of tlie suite of Beckington, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, 1828, p. lxvii.