By C. EB. Ponting, F.8.A. 191 
Renaissance period—although imposing, was doubtless found un- 
suited to modern requirements. This was effectually remedied by 
Wyatt, although his plan involved great destruction of old parts. 
He built a corridor of two stories round the quadrangle, reducing 
it in size but adding greatly to the convenience of the house. The 
entrance archway on the east was closed, and a new entrance formed 
on the north side of the hall. 
This, of course, involved the removal of Holbein’s Porch, which 
for some reason (probably because it did not commend itself to 
Wyatt’s Gothic sympathies), was not re-erected at the north en- 
trance, but removed to the gardens, and a new porch built. The 
whole of the north front and the greater part of the west were 
remodelled at the same time, the floor of the hall was raised, reducing 
it to one storey in height. The chapel shows later alterations still. 
In the centre of the quadrangle is a good specimen of Venetian 
well-curb in white marble, with the grooves worn by the rope still 
on its sides. The ornamentation is of the usual Byzantine type. 
The bridge over the river and the entrance gateway are the work 
of Sir William Chambers. Mr. Thomas Hendrick, one of his 
pupils, in a memoir of his master, says! :—‘ The Earl of Pembroke 
justly appreciating his abilities, employed him at his celebrated seat 
at Wilton, near Salisbury, where his triumphal arch, Palladian bridge 
and other works ever command the admiration of all persons of taste 
who visit that delightful spot.” 
The “triumphal arch” of Chambers is surmounted by an eques- 
trian ‘statue, a copy of the Marcus Aurelius from the Capitol at 
Rome. The wings of the gateway are later additions. 
The bridge over the river is a beautiful structure, the mo/éf of the 
design being two temples of the Ionic order with a connecting 
colonnade: the pedestals have an open balustrade between. The 
base is rusticated and has a segmental centre arch and two semi- 
circular side ones. The flight of steps on each side is carried on a 
segmental arch and flanked by a. continuation of the balustrade. 
1“ Chambers’ Treatise on Civil Architecture,” by Joseph Gwilt, F.S.A., 
+1824, p. 44. 
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