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Description: | This print comes from Francis Grose. [1783]. The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 2. The accompanying text (p. 230) says: "This castle was erected AD 1138 by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, brother to King Stephen, a great builder in these parts, its ruins shew it was a structure of considerable extent, and from the known magnificence of its founder, demonstrated in his other erections, there is every reason to believe, it was also very elegant, though at present its remains scarcely exhibit the least vestige of ornament, consisting mostly of the inner, or groutwork part of the walls, stripped of the squared stones with which they were faced, clearly evincing that the hand of man has contributed more to its demolition, than both the tooth of time and injuries of weather." | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Old Bishop's Palace building bishop's palace castle ruins palace Henry de Blois Wolvesey Castle | Temporal: | start=1780-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Francis Grose; S Sparrow; S Hooper | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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