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English Renaissance style ; these houses having 

 first been built by Inigo Jones in Charles I.'s reign. 



The interior is decorated with columns and 

 cornices of the Corinthian order in chiaroscuro or 

 monochrome by a French artist called Handuroy, 

 whose name, with the date 1712, remained quite 

 clearly written till lately, when the plaster became 

 loose from damp and the inscription was effaced. 



Just in front of this Pavilion, perfect in its design 

 and proportion, stands a Statue of William of 

 Orange, afterwards William III., "of glorious and 

 immortal memory." This Statue was erected by 

 the Duke of Kent to commemorate William's 

 landing in England, the Duke being one of his 

 staunchest partisans. The Statue is cast in lead a 

 very favourite material, and much used in England 

 for Garden statuary. As Lethaby says, " What is 

 tame in stone, contemptible in marble, is charming 

 in lead." There are many examples of lead work 

 at Wrest, among them two urns in "the Duke's 

 Square," put up to the memory of Antony, Earl 

 of Harrold, and Lady Glenorchy, the eldest son and 

 daughter of the Duke of Kent, who both died before 

 him. Unfortunately many of the Statues have 

 disappeared ; for instance, down one of the side 

 walks from the Pavilion a regular tapis-verte are 

 the stone Arbours in old days called " My Lady's 

 Alcoves." They are sometimes called the " Harle- 

 quin Half Houses," because the niches once held 



