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Title: The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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here is also, in the central tower, a hall, measuring seventyfeet in length and height, covered by an open timber roof of themediaeval English form, but finished with Renaissance details.Light comes very effectively through windows placed far up inthe walls. Although size and magnificence are the chief char-acteristics of this immense room, it is extremely comfortable.Other parts of the house, as at Burleigh, show alterations madein the time of Laguerre, and his productions, as well as the dec-oration which usually accompanied them. Mr. Nash well saysthat in grandeur and unity of design, though not in extent,this noble edifice, in respect of its external beauty, may be con-sidered the most striking of the numerous magnificent mansionsof the Elizabethan era. Hardwicke Hall,1 Derbyshire, another prominent work ofthis period, while magnificently illustrating it, is also a per- 1 See Robinson, P. F., History of Hardwicke Hall, plates, atlas folio, London,1835; also Nash, Hall, Neale, etc.
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WOLLATON, PART OF THE bARDEN FRONT HARDWICKE HALL. 369 sonal monument of one of its strong characters. Elizabethof Hardwicke, four times married, had at last a widowhoodof seventeen years. Her single object was the establishment ofher children in splendid opulence; and in this she was wonder-fully successful, for her six children, all by Sir William Caven-dish, attained high rank and fortune. William was the firstEarl of Devonshire, ancestor of the Dukes of that title ; Charleswas the father of the Duke of Newcastle ; from Frances de-scended the Duke of Kingston ; from Elizabeth came thatincomparable Lady Arabella Stuart, related to the Crown;and Mary was the wife of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Thefamily of De Hardwicke had held this estate more than twocenturies, and had built and occupied a mansion in native style,now standing, although dilapidated, contrasted with the impos-ing Renaissance edifice near it begun by Elizabeth when Coun-tess of Shrewsbury, in 1590, and completed seven yea

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