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the centre to bring them into harmony with the rest. The walls of . 
the east wing were not, however, entirely re-built: the lower parts 
are the original masonry of Sir W. Herbert’s house, into which 
Inigo Jones inserted new windows—and the relieving arches over the 
older windows are still visible in some places. These walls were raised 
with masonry of a different description, so that the alteration is 
easily traceable. Fergusson, with his usual admiration of almost 
everything which is not Gothic, refers to this work in terms which 
all of us will hardly be prepared to endorse. He says “ In the 
facade which Jones designed for Wilton he omitted the ‘Order’ 
altogether, and sought merely to attain the effect he desired by a 
pleasing proportion of the parts amongst themselves and a sufficient 
scale to give dignity to the mass, and so successful was he that this 
design has been repeated over and over again in the country seats 
of English noblemen. There is little fault to be found with the 
elevation, which is both elegant and appropriate, unless it is being 
too plain for the purpose. This is a defect which might easily have 
been removed by richer dressing round the windows or by panelling.” 
The next great re-modelling of the house was made from the 
designs of the elder Wyatt, at about the beginning of the present 
century. From an old plan made before this,? it appears that each 
of the four sides of the quadrangle was a single line of rooms opening 
out of one another, and having windows on both sides. The great 
hall, of two stories in height, with a gallery round at the first-floor 
level, was in the centre of the north side—the grand staircase, 
walled off from the hall, was at its west end, and at the east end of 
the hall was a vestibule with apsidal end (and with apparently a 
series of pilasters and niches carried round), which was the main 
entrance to the house from the quadrangle, through the porch known 
as © Holbein’s Porch.” This arrangement of the rooms without any 
passage of communication—a very general one in houses of the 
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1 History of Modern Architecture, p. 291. 
2 Dedicated to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, by J. Rocque, “ Published ac- 
cording to Act of Parliament, 1746.” 
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