Dartmouth. The old Butter Walk ([1850?])
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Publication Details
Ward and Lock's pictorial and historical guide to South Devon. London and New York: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1888. p. 68.The merchants of Dartmouth were once princes. [
] But they have passed away, though not without leaving their marks behind them, in the richly carved old houses, which, though some of them have been swept away by the inexorable demands of modern improvement, have been dealt with lovingly by their successors. The chief of these grand old houses - with their gables and overhanging storeys, with quaint pillars and brackets shaped like monsters of the earth and sea, with massive oaken doors and rich carvings, with elaborate ceilings teaching pious lessons, and with everything else that marked the costly domestic architecture of a picturesque age - are to be found in the Butter Walk, running due south from the New Quay, which we cross on leaving the pontoon. They are still in the same state as when the Merry Monarch sauntered along their piazza and held his court on the first floor of No. 4, where the royal arms, carved in oak, may still be seen over the mantle-piece.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Lithograph
203x307mm
1850