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Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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f this church, which are eight in number, hang on aftrong, high built fteeple, erected in another quarter of thechurch-yard ; the walls of the fpire, which towards the top arelittle more than four inches thick, being judged too weak forfuch a weight of metal; fo that in the cathedral there is onlyone bell, which rings when the bifhop comes to the choir. Thischurch has a cloifter, which is 150 feet fquare, and of as fineworkmanfhip as any in England. The chapter-houfe, which isan octagon, is 150 feet in circumference ; and yet the roof bearsall upon one fmall pillar in the center, fo much too weak in ap-pearance for the fupport of fuch a prodigious weight, that theconftruction of this building is thought one of the greateft cu-riofities in England. There is a library well furnifhed withbooks, belonging to the cathedral, and adjoining to it is a clofe,for the refidence of the canons and prebendaries, which is folarge and v> ell built, that it looks like a fine city of itfelf. Befides
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. i$$ f Befides the cathedral, there are in this city three other churches,and three charity fchools, in which 170 children are taught andcloathed. It has an hofpital or college, founded in 1683, bybifhop Ward, for ten widows of poor clergymen ; and here arefeveral boarding fchools, for young gentlemen and ladies. Thiscity has a fpacious market-place, in which is a finetown-houfe ;and the water of the Avon runs through the ftreets in canals,lined with brick. There are no vaults in the churches, norcellars in any part of the city, the foil being fo moift, that thewater rifes up in graves dug in the cathedral, and is fometimestwo feet high in the chapter houfe. The manufactures of thiscity are flannels, druggets, and the cloths called Salifbury Whites.It is alfo famous for the manufactures of bone-lace and fciffars ;and may be reckoned as flourifhing a city as any in England3that depends entirely on a home trade. MARKET-TOWNS. Old Sarum, (lands at the diftanceof o

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