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 BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD

��two elder brothers, Richard and Antony, otherwise unknown to fame, married ladies of the same rank ' before their younger brothers had become very eminent men. The main entrance wing of the hospital faces on to the High Street (south), and consists in elevation of a main wing with a central tower, set back from the street, flanked by two wings projecting to the street line. From the angles of the latter is carried a stone balustrade of 18th-century date, with an open- ing in the middle opposite the archway to the court

��four small octagonal turrets, of which that to the north-west contains a stair to the upper floors and roof, while all are finished with lead-covered cupolas, and rise a stage above the tower. In the first floor is the large window of the board-room, of five mullioned and transomed lights, and above this the close-barred window of the treasury, of four rounded lights. The elevation of the tower to the courtyard is of a similar nature, but the arch is simpler in detail. The arch- way has a coved plaster ceiling, and large contemporary

��Masters Hall

Kitchen

Masters Parlour

���High Street

��Scale of Feet

PLAN OF ABBOT'S HOSPITAL, GUILDFORD

��which pierces the central tower. This archway is set in a complete pedestalled Doric order with fan- tastically rusticated pilasters and arch, and is apparently a complete restoration. Above this is a quartered shield of the royal arms of James I. On it is the inscription : ' These arms erected by S. Robinson, master 18(25).' At the angles of the tower are

��doors elaborately panelled and with pierced heads. In the main and projecting wings are mullioned and transomed windows symmetrically placed in two stories, and in the curvilinear gables of the projecting wings are smaller untransomed windows to the attics with square-headed labels. The other windows are tied by string-courses. The board-room over the

��7Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 79*, 8oi.

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