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and the views over the park and river Avon from the south 
windows are lovely. Finally the party were ushered into the 
great hall, which contains beautiful suits of steel armour, and the 
sword of immense length and other reliques of the mythical hero. 
Guy of Warwick, who lived a long period before the Conquest, 
and when satiated with love and war, retired as a hermit to a 
cave at Guy’s Cliff, two miles distant. The lofty tower at the 
south-east corner of the quadrangle, called Guy’s Tower, was. 
subsequently ascended by several members. It was built by 
Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 1394, and restored, as it 
now stands, in 1547 by John Dudley, Viscount L’Isle. Rich Earl 
of Warwick in 1642 was a Parliamentarian, and defended the 
Castle successfully against the Royalists, commanded by the Earl 
of Northampton. From this fact we can account for this Castle 
remaining intact to the present time, and also for the preservation 
of the monuments in the Beauchamp Chapel and Chancel of the 
parish church of S. Mary. Before leaving the Castle the party 
passed through a gateway in the northern side of the quadrangle, 
and in the park reached the lofty greenhouse, whence a charming 
view was obtained through a vista of the park over the river Avon 
artificially expanded into a lake. In this conservatory stands 
the Warwick Vase, cut out of one solid block of white marble. 
It was found in a lake at the Emperor Hadrian’s Villa, at Tivoli, 
in 1794, and acquired by the Earl of Warwick of that time. 
Leaving this interesting Castle, the parish church of S. Mary 
was soon reached, and the architectural taste of the party was 
rudely shocked by the horrible edifice which, after the great fire 
that consumed more than half Warwick in 1694, was constructed 
by some local builders, named Smith, at the cost of £4,874 9s. 5d. 
It is impossible to ascribe the tower and nave to any style of 
architecture. The former is lofty, and stands on open arches on 
three sides, forming a porch at the west of the Church, the 
windows of the nave have tracery, which offends every rule of 
architecture, and beats the record for ugliness. 
