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Title: Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, A(lfred) H(enry), (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ectural effect. But to return to the building of Wollaton. It is.said theniches on the facades of the house were intended to hold statu-ettes, but tradition gives it that the ship bearing these from Italywas wrecked, and its cargo lost. Some of the busts in the roundniches are of later insertion, for surely Charles 1. is there ! Theenrichment to the already wealthy dccorc by those sunken imageswould have been wondrous. Among WyatLs changes must have been closing in withdoors the tine stone screen supporting the Minstrels Gallerey,over which one loves to throw, Paolo Veronese fashion, heavydraperies of crimson velvet ! The Hall had included the presentoutside passage under the Gallery. The Hall measurements mayhave interest:— Length, including screen and gallery . . . 61 ft. ic4 in. up to screen (as now) . . . . 50 7 Width 30 I Height 50 9 and the top, Bedlam— Length 6; ft. 2 in. Width 29 4 Height 22 6 The great charm of this Hall is that, once shut the eight T^:^;:^! •H.^ f ^^ ^
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2 2 MoIIaton Iball doors leading into it, you are in a room private almost as a bou-doir ; for its only gallery, the Minstrels (?) at one end, holdingthe old organ (last repaired in 1799), is not necessarily a passage.So, in summer, when you escape the glare by down-drawnscreens to the high sun-blazoned windows, and sit luxuriouslylooking through the Saloon to its open terrace door, on the vividgreenery without, yourself cool as in a woodland ; so, in winter,when coiled in the great chairs in front of a fire whose feedingcoal-blocks are each a maiVs burden, and one of the great chan-deliers lights in rich harmony and no glare the pictures, plenish-ing, and high heraldry of the roof,—be you one, or be you ascore, you feel essentially—Homed ! In a dwelling so given up to external symmetries, and thisgreat Halls space, it is natural that other rooms should suffer, sothere are none of any (proportionately) notable size, though theold Drawing- and Dining-rooms up-stairs (the latter tem

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