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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



FROM THE EAST TERRACE. 



not only is fine panelling and plaster-work retained, 

 hut a whole series of most excellent and elaborate 

 chimney-pieces in oak and stone bearing the arms of 

 both Elizabeth and James, and thus marking the 

 period during which the work went on. From the 



number and disposition 

 of rooms in which traces 

 of this work survive, we 

 may judge that the house 

 was three-sided, if not 

 quadrangular, as was 

 Chatsworth, and that, 

 unlike Chatsworth, which 

 was entirely destroyed 

 ind rebuilt as a classic 

 house between 1685 and 

 1707, Lyme was allowed 

 largely to stand, though it 

 must needs be decked 

 out in the later taste by 

 complete refacing and 

 rewindowing, and by- 

 much new decoration 

 within. This was done 

 between 1726 and 1729 

 by Giacomo Leoni, a 

 Venetian architect, who 

 owed his introduction to 

 England to the muni- 

 ficence of Lord Bur- 

 lington. He completely 



transformed the house externally, and built the great 

 south front ; and at about the same period much of 

 the terracing seems to have been done. A great 

 deal of good work was executed in subsequent years, 

 particularly early in the last century, when the place 



'IHE EAST SIDE Ol- Till: QUADRANGLE. 



