Identifier: imperialislanden00hunn (find matches)
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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WINDSOR CASTLE. 89 Sir Jeffry Wyatville, was the architect under whose direction, in the course of a few years, it was given its present form and aspect. The extent and thoroughness of the restoration, or rebuilding, the largest work of the sort in England, is indicated by the amount spent during three years, £388,000, and by the many illustrations in the sumptuous atlas foliol published for the executors of Sir Jeffry. The edifice does not show reproduction of former designs or imitation of old forms so much as it does a new work in an ancient national style modified; for it is not a mediaeval castle, but a modern palace built in castellated and civil varieties of the Pointed style, with the old spirit that adapted them to new uses to be served. The result is one of the most appropriate, majestic, and picturesque palaces in the world. It crowns a height with an enormous diadem of battlemented walls and towers, strong with their pale gray stone, but cheerful with their traceried windows, and ri

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