#bishop's chimney arch

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Stucco San Francisco Inspiration for a large mediterranean white two-story stucco exterior home remodel

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Landscape - Mediterranean Landscape Photo of a mid-sized mediterranean partial sun side yard gravel garden path in summer.

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Monday 26.. May 1834

6 55/..

12 ¾

fine but dullish F58 ½° at 6 55/.. goodish kiss last night comfortable enough at Queen’s head at Staindrop – not so cheap and good as at Greta Bridge – off for Raby castle at 9 26/.. there in ¼ hour- drove into the hall – by much the most imposing part of the story – the castle well worth seeing but too much modernized within generally and without as to the windows – no pictures worth seeing but six good views of Venice by Canaletti [Canaletto] – castle and terraces stand on 2 acres – the old baronial hall seemed smaller than when I saw it from Croft 10 or 12 years ago, because perhaps now converted into a museum of natural history – some pretty good birds stuffed and shells and minerals – the housekeeper very civil – cleans the marble slabs and chimney pieces (the red porphyry columns of the entrance hall and the imitation verd antique of the excellent of the dining room only scagliuola) with a mixture of soft soap and Spanish whitening and pear ash smeared on to the marble should remain on a fortnight at least and then be washed off with hot water and a fine soft brush to take all out of the carved work – the breadth of flat grass terrace round the castle to the parapet wall surrounding it, not much wider in the widest part than 20 yards – flagged way close up to the windows some 8 some 5ft. broad- off from Raby at 10 47/.. and nice drive to Bishop Auckland at 11 ¾ a treat little town – alighted at goodish Inn and walked across the great square to the castle, a handsome modern castle-like house – went over it in 25 minutes – in the dining room Jacob and his 12 sons by Ribera Spagnoletti [Spagnoletto] (all but one by Pond) in as many of the large panels – Louis Cornaro his, son, grandson, and 4 or 5 great grandsons by Titian and 1 or 2 more pictures – none but a few bishops elsewhere and the whole house looked very bare of furniture – a picture in the fine large handsome chapel (roof very fine oak-carving in square compartments armorial) over the alter by Sir Joshua Reynolds – Xst [Christ] ascending from the X in 1 compartment of window and in one ditto on each side, a Roman soldier falling or fallen to the Earth in astonishment and terror – not a pleasing picture to me – the 2 soldiers heavy and clumsy – the Xst [Christ] not handsome and seeming faded as to colouring – an hour strolling about the park – very picturesque good castle-like deer sheds looking like handsome arcaded stables from the castle – the little river Gaunless (pronounced Ganless) enlarged and deepened and weared and paved with stones and spoiled opposite the house – it flows in a rocky picturesque ravine – the country around beautiful – 5/8 of an octagon battlemented old looking temple or seat on the opposite side of the river well situated near the top of the hill and commanding nice view of the castle – 5 open archways, rather pointed, like old fashioned doorways – a small buttress from bottom to top between each archway – about 4ft. wide and 6ft. 6in. high to the span of the arch – this might do at the top of the Conery wood – off from Bishop Auckland at 1 40, pretty about the picturesque village (large village green or square) of Piercebridge – handsome 3 arched street over the picturesque rock-bedded tees but a small river just now, so little water in its bed – colonel Pulleyn has a goodish 3 story house on entering the village – no post horses – went forward (21 miles) to Cattericke bridge – off from there at 4 50/.. and at Masham at 6 55/.. – for the last half hour had grubbled her well just done before driving into the town ordered tea at 8 and strolled into the neat good church – handsome monument (about 1613) to a sir Marmaduke Wyville [Wyvill] and his wife – 3 or 4 Danby monuments but recent and not handsome the church in mourning for the last of his house William Danby Esquire of Swinton who died about 5 months ago – then walked to the house to the about a mile + very pretty drive – walked up to the house as near as we could for high-iron-railed – off flower garden in front – modern castellated – joined on to a common sort of plain house and offices – not in particularly good architectural keeping but looking very pretty – the park struck us as far more beautiful than that at Rokeby – tho’ the entrance lodges not castle-like, and not at all suited to the house – back in about ½ hour at 9 – tea – wrote all the above of today till 11 25/.. at which hour F58° now in sitting room, fine day – coolish in the evening but very fine on leaving Bishop Auckland found cousin gently came not afterwards incommoded

£70 given by Mr. Danby over the arch separating the chancel from the body of the church – an angel on a cloud contemplating a cross. Greek motto at his feet which things the angels desire to look into good picture

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1831 Thursday 13 October

7 10/.. 12 40/..

Great deal of rain in the night but apparently fair at 7 10/.. and, now at 8, at which hour Fahrenheit 64°. - out at 8 1/2 - Went into the bookseller's shop opposite - bought Chichester guide - they did not burn the bp. [bishop] last night in effigy - the police interfered and prevented the burning - but all the people seem reformers, moderate or radical - then sauntered down to the Cathedral stopping as I went to admire the beautiful gothic market place a little below the hotel (The Swan) -

A verger went all round the cathedral with me and to the top of the tower (about 248 steps) from which springs the steeple, within the latter is a sort of scaffollding by which to secure four ladders, of 40 feet long each, hung, as it were, in air one above another and by which the workmen ascend, and, when at the top, if anything is to be done outside (which has happened without accident 4 or 6 times in the time of this verger, a singing boy in the cathedral 40 years ago) they make a hole in the stone work, and put up a scaffolding on the outside of the steeple - too hazy to see Chichester steeple, or the Portsmouth or the Isle of Wight - but good bird's eye view of the town - not large - merely high Street good and another goodish street or 2 the west Sussex and East Hampshire infirmary is a large handsome looking plain building stone or stuccoed - a small part of boulevard or old rampart left, shaded by 2 rows of fine large elms, the only town walk the inhabitants have - the corporation sold all the rest long ago by bit and bit and it is all built upon - Both inside and outside of the cathedral exceedingly plain - round Saxon arches - no ornament - the interior has been lately cleaned and scraped, so that, the white and yellow wash being gone, the natural colour of the stone is left with great advantage - saw no painted glass -

View of Chichester Cathedral in 1833 by Joseph Francis Gilbert [Image Source]

Walked all thro' the cloisters (3 sides of a square remarkably neat and well kept - roof not underdrawn - of the sweet or chesnut eatable wood that, as is the rest of the cathedral, which spiders have an aversion to, and therefore not a spider's web to be seen - thro' the cloisters, and entered by the South transept door - on one side (right) paintings of all the bps. [bishops] - on the other all the Kings from William the conqueror down to Henry 8 when they were done - this transept screened off by the tomb of St. Richard once famous for the miracles done at his shrine in this cathedral - the transepts communicate with the side aisles of the nave and choir which last takes in the part under the tower roofed in the same height as the rest of the choir - instead of tabernacle work, plain gothicized sort of wainscot of deal painted darkish brown with gild gothic mouldings - looks much better than might be fancied from the description - beyond the choir the Sanctum Sanctorum, a presbytery - handsome and spacious - 2 fine columns of darkish porphyry like Sussex marble (from near Horsham) with 4 smaller columns clustering round them - from the east end of presbytery descend by a few steps into the fine large well-aired vault of the duke of Richmond made in 1750 the 1st. duke buried in westminster abbey till taken up and brought here - 20 coffins there - the broad brickwork bench on which they stand is on arches to prevent damp and there are open windows on each side that the place is as sweet as any other part of the church -

Above the duke's vault is what was the Lady's chapel to which one ascends by a few steps - now the library - in a line with the choir, but much lower - small library - the chapter holds its meetings there - some old brass plates (like small bread and butter plates) a chalice etc. and inscription of William the conqueror's time taken from the tomb of the 2nd bishop - (translated by the reverend Thomas Valentine prebendary of Selsea - the organ is of the time of Charles 2nd - the choir screen very plain gothic of time Henry 6 - 3 pointed arches the middle one much the narrowest - no transept aisles - double aisles on each side nave and choir - fine specimen of quite plain old Saxon - church consecrated 12 September 1199 - believes there is an error about this date in the guide book - several errors - records not consulted that ought and might have been - the belfry tower not mentioned save in a note of errata - a large good loking looking square gothic tower, a little distance from the church built for the bells because of the injury they might do the steeple, as said the verger guide -

The choir at Chichester Cathedral [Image Source]

In returning, sauntered along High street in spite of its raining a little bought sponge, and a pair of strong leather shoes at a venture - back at 11 50/60 and from then to 1 25/.. breakfast and read the Times - sad rioting work at Derby - and the mob burnt down the duke of Newcastle's Nottingham castle, to the ground on Monday - Very comfortable at Chichester - the Swan a very good Inn-

Off at 1 35/.. - Goodwood (3 miles from Chichester) plantations (duke of Richmond) stretch along the range of down (down) at a little distance north of the town - the duke getting rich - a good economist - has bought a great many farms lately in this neighbourhood - at 1 3/4 pass road (left) to Goodwood and in 5 mins. [minutes] more get a peep of the house - oblong - south part a pediment in the middle and a round topped little round tower at each corner - flattish all around after leaving the Goodwood downs, and not very interesting drive till alight at the Norfolk arms Arundel at 3 10/.. - wait for my 2 servants -

At 3 55/.. at the castle - stands high, on a chalk hill - the low rich ground (some of it let at 6 guins. [guineas] an acre belongs great part to the duke great to the corporation) about it, supposed to have been covered by the sea at the time the castle was first built by the Romans - (no date of the castle) - In proof of the retiring of the sea, anchors and other marine implements have been found on digging - at present this low land forms quite a basin round particularly in front south of the castle - the river Arun running along it with remarkable windings - but if it was not for these windings - these great détours - the tide comes up so strongly that it would force the water, so back as to make it overflow this low land - the Arun runs to the sea and to the Thames - and navigable all the way, sometimes by canal-cuts - the man who shewed the house said Arundel was originally perhaps Arundale -

Arundel Castle c1880 [Image Source]

Magnificent castle - the old ruins fine - particularly the great old ivy covered round Keep Tower where we afterwards saw the 7 large horned american owls - but the present house built on the old site, partly keeping up the old walls (4, and, in places, 5 yards thick) by the late duke, who spent above 30 years and £600,000 in doing it, unfinished as he died and left it - on entering the court, the building forms nearly 3 sides of a square - or a centre and wings - centre 4 stories high - entrance (rather projecting) with its large windows above and on each side of it, 4 tiers of 2 three light windows = 8 - on entering (right) baronial hall and unfinished chapels - (left) library and unfinished saloon - baronial hall tho' not quite finished very fine - magnificent oak plain gothic groined roof - capital model for the hall at Shibden? - chapel a heap of brick and rubbish within not seeable - ditto the saloon -

But the mahogany lined, beautifully gothic wrought library tower which cost above £30,000 - far the most beautiful library I ever beheld anywhere - from the baronial hall, we saw dining room breakfast room fine drawing room etc. (the centre divided by fine long gallery) but I skip all to get to the library - 130 feet long - gallery round mid-height the room and all the windows above the gallery - the galleries finished at the top like aisles, and the middle part finished likewise at the top and partly for a gallery, library, museum! 3 arcades and a sort of transept. then 3 arcades more at the other end - 6 windows on each side, and one transept window on each side = 14 windows - two beautiful white marble chimney pieces on the same side (north east side) that were bought by the late duke at the sale of the duke of Bedford's house in Bloomsbury square pulled down about 38 years ago - of the 1st. chimney piece the 2 large supporting figures are whole lengths of Socrates and Plato, with a square medallion of Archimedes and his attributes in the centre of the architrave - one of the figures of the other chimney piece is said to be Æsculapius - library walls 4 yards thick - the library windows outside seem large churchlike windows - the lower 1/2 of them lights the library - the upper lights rooms above -

The library at Arundel Castle [Photo by Des Morris]

The castle and its fortifications stands on 5 1/2 acres of ground - the man thought the baronial hall must be 45 feet high - and the drawing room 25 feet high - he recommended me to see Bignall - the fine old Roman mosaic pavement discovered there - 7 miles from here - on the Petworth road - turn off 4 miles from here at the public house at the foot of Bury hill - 1 5/.. hour in the castle - 20 mins. [minutes] at the old round keep tower and 10 mins. [minutes] looking round about the castle - there is a narrow way and parapet wall all round the front towards the town and the south -

Home at 5 35/.. washed hands had hair done etc. - dinner at 6 in 3/4 hour - then till 8 40/.. wrote all the above of today - very glad to have come round to see this castle - the present duke does nothing at it - leaves all unfinished or not just as the late duke left - the present one has lately bought a large estate here of a Mr. Walker - I look everywhere for models for Shibden - I must be contented to do as little at it as possible - my ideas are too apt to grow too large - from 8 3/4 to 11 1/2 at my travelling account and to my great joy brought it down to tonight - oh! that my private account, cashbook and all the rest were equally well done! - but what I have done is better than nothing - I must work at the rest for a day or 2 in London - a little rain while out this morning at Chichester and a little also as I came here but afterwards (from 3 p.m.) fair - Fahrenheit 65°. now at 11 1/2 - Came to my room at 11 40/.. -  

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/14/0134 - SH:7/ML/E/14/0135

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Gresham House [aka. Bishop’s Palace] Galveston, Texas

The house was built from 1887 to 1892 for Colonel Walter Gresham and his wife Josephine, with whom he had nine children. An attorney and entrepreneur, Gresham came to Galveston from Virginia following his service in the Civil War. He was a founder of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, eventually working to bring about the merger of the Santa Fe with the Atchison and Topeka Railroad. He also served in the Texas Legislature.

Chief Architect Nicholas Joseph Clayton designed the house. The small lot and oversized house make it an anomaly among similar houses of its period and architectural style. It is Victorian; however, it is more specifically described as Chateausque given the intricate combination of materials, cast iron galleries and complex roof system. Chateausque is a derivative of the French Revival popularized in the latter part of the 19th century by Richard Morris Hunt. Nicholas Clayton, however, expanded on the style by using varicolored and irregularly shaped stone, round Romanesque and depressed Tudor arches with heavily articulated carvings of vegetation, animals, people, and imaginary creatures. Constructed of steel and stone (it survived the Great Storm of 1900 virtually unscathed primarily due to its impressive construction which included stone exterior walls of 23", interior walls of 16″ thick and massive sliding pocket doors throughout the first floor), the Bishop’s Palace soars three stories over a raised basement level, with steep roofs and long sculptural chimneys. Typical of Clayton, he used a combination of simple geometric forms in bold massing to create an additional dramatic effect. In Galveston’s great period of mansion building – the 1870s, 80s and 90s – Gresham’s commission of Nicholas Clayton, Galveston’s premier architect, resulted in Clayton’s most spectacular residential design and arguably the finest of the “Broadway beauties.”

The interior spaces of this museum property are grand with exotic materials such as a pair of Sienna marble columns flanking the entrance hall. The first floor rooms have fourteen foot ceilings with coves and coffers. An octagonal mahogany stairwell is forty feet tall with stained glass on five sides. The stair is lit by a large octagonal skylight. A massive fireplace in the front parlor is made of Santo Domingo mahogany. The house includes abundant stained glass, wood carvings, and decorative plaster ceilings and walls. Other common yet unique woods used at the time included curly pine from Mississippi, now deemed near extinct.

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Steel and Stone in Galveston

Steel and Stone in Galveston

By Linda Tancs Bishop’s Palace (also known as Gresham House) is a National Historic Landmark in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas. Acknowledged by architectural historians as one of the most significant Victorian residences in the country, its hint of French Revival combined with depressed Tudor arches, articulated carvings and sculptural chimneys renders it one of the “Broadway…

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Monday 26.. May 1834

6 55

12 ¾

Fine but dullish F58 ½° at 6 55. Goodish kiss last night. Comfortable enough at Queen’s head at Staindrop – not so cheap and good as at Greta Bridge – off for Raby castle at 9 26 there in ¼ hour- drove into the hall - by much the most imposing part of the story - the castle well worth seeing but too much modernized within generally and without as to the windows - no pictures worth seeing but six good views of Venice by Canaletti - castle and terraces stand on 2 acres - the old baronial hall seemed smaller than when I saw it from Croft 10 or 12 years ago, because perhaps now converted into a museum of natural history - some pretty good birds stuffed and shells and minerals - the housekeeper very civil - cleans the marble slabs and chimney pieces (the red porphyrin columns of the entrance hall and the imitation verd antique of the excellent of the dining room only scagliuota) with a mixture of soft soap and Spanish whitening and pear ash smeared on to the marble should remain on a fortnight at least and then be washed off with hot water and a fine soft brush to take all out of the carved work - the breadth of flat grass terrace round the castle to the parapet wall surrounding it, not much wider in the widest part than 20 yards - flagged way close up to the windows some 8 some 5ft bread. Off from Raby at 10 47 and nice drive to Bishop Auckland at 11 ¾ a treat little town – alighted at goodish Inn and walked across the great square to the castle, a handsome modern castle-like house – went over it in 25 minutes - in the dining room Jacob and his 12 sons by Ribera Spagnoletti (all but one by Pond) in as many of the large panels - Louis Cornaro his, son, grandson, and 4 or 5 great grandsons by Titian and 1 or 2 more pictures - none but a few bishops elsewhere and the whole house looked very bare of furniture - a picture in the fine large handsome chapel (roof very fine oak-carving in square compartments armorial) over the alter by Sir Joshua Reynolds - Xst ascending from the X in 1 compartment of window and in one ditto on each side, a Roman soldier falling or fallen to the Earth in astonishment and terror - not a pleasing picture to me - the 2 soldiers heavy and clumsy - the Xst not handsome and seeming faded as to colouring - an hour strolling about the park - very picturesque good castle-like deer sheds looking like handsome arcaded stables from the castle - the little river Gaunless (pronounced Ganless) enlarged and deepened and weared and paved with stones and spoiled opposite the house - it flows in a rocky picturesque ravine - the country around beautiful - 5/8 of an octagon battlemented old looking temple or seat on the opposite side of the river well situated near the top of the hill and commanding nice view of the castle - 5 open archways, rather pointed, like old fashioned doorways - a small buttress from bottom to top between each archway - about 4ft wide and 6 ft 6 in. high to the span of the arch - this might do at the top of the Conery wood. Off from Bishop Auckland at 1 40, pretty about the picturesque village (large village green or square) of Piercebridge - handsome 3 arched street over the picturesque rock-bedded tees but a small river just now, so little water in its bed - colonel Pulleyn has a goodish 3 story house on entering the village - no post horses - went forward (21 miles) to Cattericke bridge - off from there at 4 50 and at Masham at 6 55 - for the last half hour had grubbled her well just done before driving into the town. Ordered tea at 8 and strolled into the neat good church – handsome monument (about 1613) to a sir Marmaduke Wyville and his wife - 3 or 4 Danby monuments but recent and not handsome the church in mourning for the last of his house William Danby Esquire of Swinton who died about 5 months ago - then walked to the house to the about a mile + very pretty drive - walked up to the house as near as we could for high-iron-railed – off flower garden in front - modern castellated - joined on to a common sort of plain house and offices - not in particularly good architectural keeping but looking very pretty - the park struck us as far more beautiful than that at Rokeby - tho’ the entrance lodges not castle-like, and not at all suited to the house - back in about ½ hour at 9 – tea – wrote all the above of today till 11 25 at which hour F58° now in sitting room, fine day – coolish in the evening but very fine. On leaving Bishop Auckland found cousin gently came not afterwards incommoded.

£70 given by Mr. Danby over the arch separating the chancel from the body of the church – an angel on a cloud contemplating a cross. Greek motto at his feet which things the angels desire to look into good picture

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[KISS] Monday 26.. May 1834

6 55

12 ¾

fine but dullish F58 ½° at 6 55 goodish kiss last night comfortable enough at Queen’s head at Staindrop – not so cheap and good as at Greta Bridge – off for Raby castle at 9 26 there in ¼ hour- drove into the hall - by much the most imposing part of the story - the castle well worth seeing but too much modernized within generally and without as to the windows - no pictures worth seeing but six good views of Venice by Canaletti [Canaletto] - castle and terraces stand on 2 acres - the old baronial hall seemed smaller than when I saw it from Croft 10 or 12 years ago, because perhaps now converted into a museum of natural history - some pretty good birds stuffed and shells and minerals - the housekeeper very civil - cleans the marble slabs and chimney pieces (the red porphyry columns of the entrance hall and the imitation verd antique of the excellent of the dining room only scagliuola) with a mixture of soft soap and Spanish whitening and pear ash smeared on to the marble should remain on a fortnight at least and then be washed off with hot water and a fine soft brush to take all out of the carved work - the breadth of flat grass terrace round the castle to the parapet wall surrounding it, not much wider in the widest part than 20 yards - flagged way close up to the windows some 8 some 5ft. broad- off from Raby at 10 47 and nice drive to Bishop Auckland at 11 ¾ a treat little town – alighted at goodish Inn and walked across the great square to the castle, a handsome modern castle-like house – went over it in 25 minutes - in the dining room Jacob and his 12 sons by Ribera Spagnoletti [Spagnoletto] (all but one by Pond) in as many of the large panels - Louis Cornaro his, son, grandson, and 4 or 5 great grandsons by Titian and 1 or 2 more pictures - none but a few bishops elsewhere and the whole house looked very bare of furniture - a picture in the fine large handsome chapel (roof very fine oak-carving in square compartments armorial) over the alter by Sir Joshua Reynolds - Xst [Christ] ascending from the X [cross] in 1 compartment of window and in one ditto on each side, a Roman soldier falling or fallen to the Earth in astonishment and terror - not a pleasing picture to me - the 2 soldiers heavy and clumsy - the Xst not handsome and seeming faded as to colouring - an hour strolling about the park - very picturesque good castle-like deer sheds looking like handsome arcaded stables from the castle - the little river Gaunless (pronounced Ganless) enlarged and deepened and weared and paved with stones and spoiled opposite the house - it flows in a rocky picturesque ravine - the country around beautiful - 5/8 of an octagon battlemented old looking temple or seat on the opposite side of the river well situated near the top of the hill and commanding nice view of the castle - 5 open archways, rather pointed, like old fashioned doorways - a small buttress from bottom to top between each archway - about 4ft. wide and 6ft. 6in. high to the span of the arch - this might do at the top of the Conery wood - off from Bishop Auckland at 1 40, pretty about the picturesque village (large village green or square) of Piercebridge - handsome 3 arched street over the picturesque rock-bedded tees but a small river just now, so little water in its bed - colonel Pulleyn has a goodish 3 story house on entering the village - no post horses - went forward (21 miles) to Cattericke bridge - off from there at 4 50 and at Masham at 6 55 - for the last half hour had grubbled her well just done before driving into the town ordered tea at 8 and strolled into the neat good church – handsome monument (about 1613) to a sir Marmaduke Wyville [Wyvill] and his wife - 3 or 4 Danby monuments but recent and not handsome the church in mourning for the last of his house William Danby Esquire of Swinton who died about 5 months ago - then walked to the house to the about a mile + very pretty drive - walked up to the house as near as we could for high-iron-railed – off flower garden in front - modern castellated - joined on to a common sort of plain house and offices - not in particularly good architectural keeping but looking very pretty - the park struck us as far more beautiful than that at Rokeby - tho’ the entrance lodges not castle-like, and not at all suited to the house - back in about ½ hour at 9 – tea – wrote all the above of today till 11 25 at which hour F58° now in sitting room, fine day – coolish in the evening but very fine on leaving Bishop Auckland found cousin gently came not afterwards incommoded

£70 given by Mr. Danby over the arch separating the chancel from the body of the church – an angel on a cloud contemplating a cross. Greek motto at his feet which things the angels desire to look into good picture