The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14802269653)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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gables, and is constructed with massive timbersplaced near together, and plastered between. The staircase,which is semi-cylindrical, and composed of timber, is added tothe north side of the house. The entire structure forms threesides of a quadrangle, with a lofty wall and entrance on thefourth. Its interior is rude and massive. 200 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. ture, and the magnificence of their plate, far surpassedsimilar articles in modern times. Carpets were rarelyused, and in the description of an interview withQueen Elizabeth at the palace of Placentia, at Green-wich, in 1598, which appears in the travels of PaulHentzner, a German, it is stated, We were admittedby an order Mr. Rogers had procured from the LordChamberlain, into the presence-chamber, hung withrich tapestry, and the floor after the English fashionstrewed with hay (rushes), through which the Queencommonly passes in her way to the chapel. Vyvyan. ADEL, OR ADDLE CHURCH, YORKSHIRE. AN ANGLO-NORMAN STRUCTURE.
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SOUTH ENTRANCE OF ADEL CHURCH. About six miles north-westward from Leeds is thevillage of Adel, or Addle, the Adhill of the LiberRegis, which the Rev. Dr. Whitaker supposes togive the true etymology of the word : —that is, theHill of Ada, the first Saxon colonist of the place.*This parish includes five manors, all of which, at thetime of the Domesday survey, were the property ofEarl Morton, to whom they had been granted byWilliam the Conqueror. From the same record it* Vide Loidis and Elmete, p. 174. appears, that these manors had antecedently belongedto Alward, a Saxon ; and that at the time of the surveythey were held under the Earl, by one Richard. Adel Church, which is a small, but very completespecimen of Anglo-Normayi architecture, was mostprobably erected almost immediately after the com-pilation of the Domesday Book; for as that muni-ment, though particular in its account of the manorswhich still constitute the parish, does not mention aChurch in any one of them, we may conc