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west side of the quadrangle was never begun. What was finished 
may be thus described. Before the door of the great hall was a 
noble walk, whose length was the breadth of the court, arch’d 
over with curiously-carved freestone, supported in the fore part by 
several stately pillars of the same stone, of great dimensions, of 
the Corinthian order, standing on pedestals, having cornices or 
friezes finely wrought, behind which were placed in the wall 
several seats of frieze stone also, cut into the form of an escallop 
shell, in which the company when a weary might repose them- 
selves. The apartments within were very splendid, especially the 
dining-room, which was adorned, besides paint, with statutes and 
figures cut in alabaster with admirable art and labour; but the 
chimney-picce of polished marble, curiously engraven, was of great 
cost and value. Many other of the rooms were well adorned with 
moldings and fret-work. Some of those marble clavils were so 
delicately fine that they would reflect an object true and lively 
from a great distance. In short, the number of the apartments of 
the whole may be collected hence, if report be true, that it was a 
good day’s work for a servant but to open and shut the casements 
belonging to them. Notwithstanding which ’tis now demolished, 
and all this glory eth in the dust, buried in its own ruins, there 
being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to 
mourn their approaching funerals. But what we may think 
strangest of all is, that one and the same age saw the rise and 
fall of this noble structure.” 
The church in which Prince now ministered was far inferior to 
his church at Totnes, but still it was not without interest. He 
speaks of it as ‘‘an handsome, compact, although not large, pile,”’ 
and refers to its having been founded by the Pomeroys, ‘‘ whose 
coat-armour,” he says, ‘‘is tinged in the glass of several windows 
thereof, with their matches remaining still plain and visible to the 
eye.” 
Berry Church appears to have been built in the latter part of the 
fifteenth century. It consists of chancel and nave, with north and 
south aisles, which are divided from the nave by five arches sup- 
ported upon clustered columns with carved capitals. It appears to 
have been built, or rather rebuilt, by Sir Richard Pomeroy, the 
south aisle being at the same time added by various persons of 
standing in the parish and neighbourhood, whose names appear in 
the capitals of the southern pillars carved in the stonework. 
