19th c. description

19th c. description
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Bristol Record Office: 41923/1 ('Rambling observations,' Pt 1)

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'...[there were] three small windows, the upper one square, divided into two lights with circular heads; below were two pointed windows, closely united, in which circular heads with keystones had been introduced long after their erection. The window of St. George's Chapel appears the same as at present, except that the label mouldings spring from corbels, and a frieze, enriched with trefoils charged with shields, ran under the string moulding at the bottom of the window. Between this window and the Guildhall windows was a tablet bearing the royal arms, placed there with the initials 'E.R.,' and the date '1574.'... On the other side of the Guildhall windows are the city arms. Five doors of various forms and sizes, that are access to different portions of the building, and three windows, belonging to the ground floor, seem to be scattered over the whole range of its front, without the slightest regard to that uniformity, which, to judge from its present appearance, later generations take more fully into their consideration.'