126 



THE OLD PALACE, GREENWICH 









i -^- .<~~S: Z-^:. -.^ . s - , ,.^-v*^-.-^ 



FIG. 81. The Staircase, Castle Inn, Kingston-on-Thames. 



81), and there is another at Ham House (Fig. 80), where, 

 however, the panels display flags, armour, guns, and other 

 martial emblems, which may perhaps have some reference to 

 Thomas Talmash, a brother of Lord Dysart (the owner) and a 

 general in the time of William III. 



There was an ancient house at Greenwich called the " Old 

 Palace," but distinct from the building which was at one time 

 the royal residence, sometimes known as Crowley House. It has 

 been destroyed, but some sketches by C. J. Richardson of the in- 

 teresting work it contained have survived, and among them is one 

 of a staircase with foliated balustrade (Fig. 82). The character 

 of the detail suggests a date in the middle of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, and the general treatment recalls the work which was being 

 done by Webb at that period. There is a slight survival of the 

 earlier style, but the design is handled in a more refined spirit 

 than was usually the case with sumptuous examples of Jacobean 

 work. This is particularly observed in the door (Fig. 83). 



In the hands of Inigo Jones and Webb both doorways and 

 windows assumed a correct Italian appearance, but in less 



