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ON THE AXCIENT rARLIAMENT AND CASTLE by 47, witli engaged square towers at each angle, front facing tlie clinrcli has a bay deeply pro- jecthig. The ulterior has been nuich dis- turbed, and is now so choked up withmodern erections, that it is to- tally impracticable to ascertain the dimen- sions and uses of the original chambers. It seems, however, that there must have been a spacious hall 50 feet by 24 on the first floor, lighted by three large windows to the south, but beyond this, all the other parts are unin- telligible. It is strictly an early embattled mansion, and wants all the characteristics of a castle. The heads of several of the windows exhibit elegant tracery, and they have gene- rally stone seats or bench-tables within, in the thickness of the wall, serving as oriels. The other features of this embattled man- sion will be better un- derstood from the an- nexed illustrations. The last |)oint de- serving consid(U'ation, is the more difficult one of the connection of Acton i^urnell with The west mterior of North west Angle shewing the lower stoiy and one of the Windows of the Hall &c. lioi oi Window Kortti side marked D on the Plan.