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Title: Walks in London
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903
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Publisher: New York : G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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me when we have sold the land, Libera nos Domine ! Villiers Street^ where John Evelyn tells us that he lived1583-4, having many important causes to despatch, andfor the education of my daughters, leads by the side ofCharing Cross Railway Station to the pretty gardens on theThames Embankment, where we may visit the principalremnant of York House—and a grand one it is—the statelyWatergate^ built for Duke Steenie, and perhaps the mostpertect piece of building which does honour to the nameof Inigo Jones.* On the side towards the river are the * See Ralphs Critical Review of Public Buildings. I* WALKS IN LONDON. Pukes arms, and on the side towards Buckingham Streetthe Villiers motto, * Fidei coticula Crux —* The Cross is the Touchstone of Faith. The steps, known as York Stairs, and the bases of its columns, have been buried since the river has been driven back by the Embankment,and the Watergate has now lost its meaning; but since it is undoubtedly one of the best architectural monuments
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The Watergate of York House. in London, perfect alike in its proportions and its details,it is a great pity that a large fountain or tank is not made in front of it, so that its steps might still descend upon water. At present it only serves curiously to mark theheight to which the Embankment has been raised. Inancient days the river was fordable at low-water oppositeYork Stairs. DURHAM HOUSE, 15 Immediately behind the gate is, at the end of Bucking-ham Street on the left, the only remaining portion of thehouse of the Duke of Buckingham. It is now used forthe ChTrity Organization Society, but retains its oldceilings, decorated with roses and apples magnificentlyraised in stucco of extraordinary bold design; and, in thecentre, pictures, perhaps by Verrio, of Spring and Summer.Peter the Great lived in the upper part of this house whenhe was in England, and used to spend his evenings herewith Lord Caermarthen, drinking hot brandy with pepperin it; and here also Dickens, who lived here for

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