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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
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e still remaining,are a crypt, or vault, of early pointed architecture, andthe chapel, a large and lofty building of a somewhatlater date. It is to be lamented that this latter, oneof the most spacious private chapels in the county,should be mulcted of a moiety of its proportions by abrick wall across its centre. Within the chapel area few family monuments, and a genealogical escut-cheon in carved oak. There are also some remainsof armorial bearings on the windows, viz. Babingtonquartering Beaumont, with the ancient crest of thelatter, an Elephant.* In the hall are some pieces ofancient armour, back and breast plates, and morions,probably of the date of the civil Avars, in which thefamily espoused the cause of the Parliament. Theneighbouring church is a very curious edifice. J. J. » The Babington arms are, Arg. ten torteauxes, in chief alabel of three points, Azure. 320 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. EXTRACTS FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF A TRAVELLER.—No. IV. ELTIIAM PALACE, KENT.
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The Hall, where oft in feudal pride Old Englands peers to council came ;When Cressys field spread far and wide Edward of Windsors warlike fame ;Whose rafterd roof, and portals long, Rung while unnumberd harps awoke ;Now echoes but the threshers song, Or the sad flails incessant stroke. Eltham, by the Rev. S. S. Allen. It was with feelings of high interest that we ap-proached this venerable pile, still up rearing- its headbeyond the storms of ages; and while the numerouspolitical convulsions it has witnessed have passedaway, like the baseless fabric of a vision, it yetstands a visible relic of the past, telling of the glories and hospitalities of the olden time. The approach tothe Palace, which lies about a quarter of a mile to thesouth of Eltham, still possesses, in a certain degree,its original character. Lofty forest trees rise in alltheir beauty on either side of the road, and the group-ing of the noble oaks and elms on the left, in LordRivers park, confer additional interest on th

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