Image: Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902) (14781062394)

Description: Identifier: otherfamoushomes00mala (find matches) Title: Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Malan, A(lfred) H(enry), (from old catalog) ed Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: into two rooms. West of this room are a Sitting-room inthe south-west angle of the building, and a low hall, in whichare kept an old breech-loading cannon of the fifteenth century —which was found in 1876 under the floor of one of the old rooms,with a human skeleton alongside of it — and cannon-balls andbullets of various sizes, which have been dug up on the Mountfrom time to time. Over this was formerly a long room, which served as a dor-mitory for the monks. It was divided into bedrooms by Sir JohnSt. Aubyn about 1680. A few rooms in the north-west angle anda room under the Dining-room completed the old part of thehouse, which it will be seen did not contain much accommo-dation. In 1876, Lord St. Levan began to build extensive additions tothe house, constructing kitchens, etc., under the North Court,and four stories of living-rooms and bedrooms under the SouthCourt, which he considerably extended, besides a wing at thenorth-west corner. The architect, Mr. Piers St. Aubyn, had by Text Appearing After Image: 323 324 St. HDicbaers flDount no means an easy task to carry out these additions in such an ex-posed situation and without detracting from the appearance ofthe old building. Some of the granite was found on the spot,notably the chimiieypiece in the Drawing-room, which wasquarried in the place where it now stands. Among the picturesin the Drawing-room and Billiard-room is one of a Miss Avice St.Aubyn, painted when she was 105 years old, and one of DollyPentreath, the last person who spoke the old Cornish language,who died in the XVlll century ; and there is a curious miniature ofKing Charles 1. with a full beard, Sat for by the King for SirBevil Grenville being written on the back of it. The Billiard-room contains a collection of stuffed fish caught in the neighbour-hood, including some rare specimens. Among the fish preservedhere is a sun-fish, caught two years ago, which weighed 840 lbs. A visit to the Mount is not complete without a walk roundthe foot of the hill, whence you get a g Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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