tfcarble pillars; he founded a fair chapel, and collegiate church, ,> J
a dean and prebends; which church is that of St. 'Andrew's at a
fmall diftance from the town. Excepting the church there are nl
reliques of the labors of this prelate; the place having been b J
flowed by the parlement on their furious partizan, Sir Jrtbm
Hafelrigg, who taking a fancy to the place, determined to mala
it his chief refidence. He demoliihed almoft all the building*
he found there, and out of their ruins, eredted a moft magnifice||
houfe *.
On the reftoration, the former biihop, the munificent Co/ins, wiijj
reftored to his diocefe. He had a palace ready for his receptioii
but by an excefs of piety declined making ufe of it, from the con»
deration that the ftones of the antient chapel had been facrilegioulf
applied towards the building of this late habitation of fanaticifnjiJ
The biihop pulled it down-f-, and reftoring the materials to then
antient ufe, built the prefent elegant chapel. The roof is woo*
fupported by two rows -of pillars, each confiflang of four rouif|
columns, free-ftone and marble alternate. The lhafts of fon||
of the marble are fixteen feet high,; the length of the chapel |
eighty-four feet, the breadth forty-eight; the outfide ornamental
with pinnacles. On the floor, a plain ftone, with a modeft epitapH
informs us, that the pious- refounder lies beneath, dying in thfc
year 1671.
The principal', apartments are, an old hall, feventy-five fslj
by thirty-two, the height thirty-five; and a very handfome dining
parlour, ornamented with portraits of Jacob and the twelve pig
Hilt. Ch, Durham., Dugdale, 82« $ Ibid.
triarcM
iarchs. Jacob bows under the weight of years. His fons, witlj
ich his fcriptural attribute. The figures are animated ; the color-
good. I think the painter’s name is Xubero, one 1 do not differ
in any lift of artifts. The pidtures were bought at an audtion,
idprefented to the place by biihop 'Trevor. The fame generous
relate built a fuite of additional apartments ; but dying before they
iere completed they are now furniihed, in a moft magnificent man-
itr, by the prefent biihop»
j On the old wainfcot of a room belbw flairs; are painted the arms
ifaftrange aflemblage of potentates, from Queen Elizabeth, with all
lie European Princes, to the Emperors of Abyjfinia, Bildelgerid, Cct-
M, and Tartaria; fixteen Peers of the feme reign, Knights of
lie Garter, and above them; the arms of every Bilhoprick in
Thecaftle is feated in a beautiful park, watered by the little river
mkfs, which falls, after a Ihort courfe, into the Were. The park
Iswell planted,, and has abundance of vaft alders, that by age have
the habit of that tree, and aflume the appearance of antient oaks-.
Nothing can equal the approach through this- ground' to the
cattle, which is-varied with verdant Hopes, rifing grounds, woods-,
deep precipices, impending over the river.. The great deer-
houfe, builc by biihop Trevor, is an elegant fquare building,
pod no fmall embellifhment to the place. Leland tells us, that
his time there was a fair park, having falow deer, wild bulles,
M kin.
i Oman eminence on the oppofite fide of the Were, is Binchejler, the
[uuient Vinovia ;, where feveral Roman coins, altars and infcriptions
tave been found. Several of the latter are worked up in the walls
of
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