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Title: Guide to the Palace of Westminster
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Publisher: London : Warrington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ils P. W. andP. A. respectively are carved and gilded, relieved by a deepblue background. The arches in the upper row have shields ofarms helmeted and crested with Royal crowns. Tall archedpanels display the armorial bearings of the Princes in goldand colours, surrounded by the Garter, and having crownsabove them. On blue labels, under the arms, are the respec-tive mottoes * Ich Dien and * Treu und Fest ** in slightlyraised letters. The arched coves above are each divided intofour panels by enriched ribs, the two central panels containingshields helmeted and mantled, on which, in the Prince ofWaless Canopy on the right, are the armorial ensigns of the Page Fifty. Principality and the Royal Arms of England; and in thePrince Consort s, on the left, are the escutcheons of SaxeCoburg Gotha and England. The two outer panels havelions and unicorns, sitting and holding Dinners displayed, onwhich are the triple ostrich feathers on an azure ground and ared cross on a white ground respectively.
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I HE PEERS LOBBY. (From an old print. Tjhe Candelabra have since been removed, andracl^s for coals, hah, etc., occupy the corner floor spaces. Ube pes; forthe use of the Prince of Wales is immediately on the right as the visitor ent> Page Fifty-one THE PEERS LOBBY. Entering the Peers Lobby, which is the chief approach tothe House of Lords, the visitor is struck with its magnificence.The decorations, both architectural and pictorial, are ex-tremely elegant and appropriate, though, of course, lesselaborate than those of the House. In plan the Lobby issquare, each side being divided into a wide central and twosmall arched compartments. The wide central compartments on either side have loftyarches, or doorways, all of precisely similar proportions andarrangement. The doorways on the east and west sides corre-spond with each other in detail, having quatrefoils in thespandrils, with the rose and portcullis in their centres. Aboveeach arch is a series of six arches, separated by small but

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