By J. J. Hammond. 371 



France and England quarterly, on the dexter shield B.P., and on 

 the sinister shield, [ ! On a cross five buckles [ ]. 



The chimneypiece in the common room came from a house near 

 the Angel Hotel, in Fisherton Street ; that in the room occupied 

 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, from a house 

 on the Canal, where Mr. Bloom's premises now stand. 



Jacob, fourth Earl of Kadnor, gave the chimneypiece in the 

 smoking room ; it had been given to his grandfather by the 

 Corporation of Salisbury, and was in a house in the Fish Bow, 

 where the Council House now stands : this house belonged to 

 Henry Serryge, who, according to Hatcher and Benson, was Mayor 

 of Salisbury in 1508, and bears, on four shields respectively, his 

 initials (H.S.), I.H.S., a dolphin embowed, and his merchant's 

 mark. 



The chimneypiece in the reading room was also given by the 

 same Lord Badnor, at the same time. At a restoration at Longford 

 in 1870 — 4, this chimneypiece, of the Benaissance period, which, 

 in its entirety, must have been a very mangificent one, was removed 

 from the castle, where it had stood, no doubt,' since its erection by 

 Sir Thomas Gorges, and Helena Schnachenberg, his wife. When 

 given to the Church House, it was lying disused in the timber yard 

 at Longford. There was only one room in the Church House of 

 sufficient height, where it could have been erected, and, instead of 

 using it there, it was divided. The part not used in the reading 

 room found its way back to Longford, and was afterwards built 

 into a chimneypiece there. Thus divided, it loses its archaeological 

 interest ; at some future restoration, it is to be hoped that it may 

 yet again adorn, in its original entirety, the house for which it was 

 designed. Another improvement would be to restore the parapet 

 of Crane Bridge the whole breadth of the garden, in place of the 

 present iron railings, with their rather common brickwork supports. 



It has been suggested that a branch of the river ran along the 

 west end of the house, and that a merchant occupied the house 

 and used a crane for landing his merchandise from barges, &c. A 

 channel ran along the west side of the house and joined another 

 channel at the south end, which ran along The Close boundary to 



