A description of Buxton, and the adjacent country, or, The new guide, for ladies and gentlemen, resorting to that place of health and amusement; where for the convenience of the public, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, has magnificently provided such very handsome and ample accommodations / compiled by W. Bott.

  • Bott, William.
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of Buxton, and the adjacent country, or, The new guide, for ladies and gentlemen, resorting to that place of health and amusement; where for the convenience of the public, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, has magnificently provided such very handsome and ample accommodations / compiled by W. Bott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tune : It is built round a large quadrangular court, and has two principal fronts, the ex- tent of one is one hundred eighty two, and the other one hundred-eighty feet: Thelightnefs and elegance of the former, does honour to the architect, but the other Tides of the houfe are not quite fo beautiful: Having pafled the porter’s door, you are conducted through a long court, round which the apartments are built; on the oppofite Tides, is a colo- nade, fixty yards long, and in the centre a fountain, with the flatue of Orpheus : a paffage at the north-eaft corner, leads to the hall, and from thence into the apartments. The Hall is fixty feet by twenty-feven: the paintings in which are chiefly by Varro ; and the death of Cctfar in the Capitol, is very fine. From the hair cafe, which is thirty feet by twenty-four, you pafs through a long gal- lery hung with prints, into the Chapel, which is fpacious and handfomely fitted up ; the floor is marble, the feats are made of cedar ; and the carved work executed by Cibber and Gibbons'. On each fide of the altar is a hatue, by the former, which are Faith and Hope ; the draperies have great merit, but the hairs of the