The plan of Windsor Castle / Batty Langley (1743)

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Title:: The plan of Windsor Castle / Batty Langley (1743)

Alternative Title:: The atlas factice of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor

Date of Original:: 1782

Identifier:: RB_GEN_G1793_C6-1800_006.tif

Permalink:: https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3q81534s

Notes:: This map was originally bound together with other maps in the book "The atlas factice of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor".

Caption:: From map: "The Plan of Windsor Castle. To the most Noble CHARLES Duke of S. ALBANS Governor of WINDSOR CASTLE, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. This PLAN & ELEVATIONS, are most Humbly Inseril'd By His Grace Most Duty Full Serv. Batty Langley."

From map: "A Short Historical Account of WINDSOR CASTLE. Abstracted from Lambert, Cambden, Ashmole & c.

Edward the Confessor, for the Hope of Eternal Reward and the Remission of all His Sins; His Fathers, Mothers & all his Ancestors; granted Wyndleshore, then so called from the winding Course of the River, now call'd Windsor to the Monks at Westminster, for which William ye Conqr. exchanged Lands & c. in Essex; And he being delighted with its Situation, built a House on the Hill, which his son Henry I, made into a Castle, wherein Edward III was born, Who constituted it -

-The Seat of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER, which Himself devised, in the 23d. Year of His Reign, viz. Anne 1349. consisting of 26 Knights, of which the King is always Soverign; and founded the College of ye Chapel of St. George, which Hen.VI. with Authority of Parliament, incorporated by the name of the Dean, and Canons of ye free Chapel of St.George; consisting of a Dean, 12 Canons, 7 Minor Canons, 11 Clerks, and 18 Poor Knights.

About the Year 1360 Edward III. pulled the Old Castle intirely down (the Tower's l.m.n in the West of ye lower Ward only Excepted) And in His 48th Year Viz. Annon. 1374. after 14 Years Labour) He completed ye rebuilding of it, with very great Magnificency under ye Directions of Wm. of Wickham (afterwards Bishop of Winchester) and Robert de Bernham, whose Fee's was one Shilling per Day, when at Windsor, 2 Shillings per Day, when else where on that Affair, & Three Shillings p. Week, each for his Clerk.

This Castle, is under the Goverment of a Constable, so calld, in the Reign of King John, & has bore that Name ever since.

This Office is of great Antiquity, Honour, and Power, And is both Military and Civil. The Constable at this Time is The Most Noble CHARLES Duke of St. Alban's, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter.

On the Ground where now stands the Choir, Stood a Chapel, built by Hen. I Dedicated to Edward the Confessor, which Edward III. pulled down, & laid the Foundation of a-nother Chapel which He dedicate to the Virgin Mary, and St. George of Cappadocia; But Ed. IV. thikning that Structure not Stately enough; caused it to be taken down and erected another more Magnificent in its Stead, (which now is a ye East Part of the present Chapel) under the Direction of Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Salisbury.

Hen.VII. enlarged this Chapel very considerably in its Length, by building the West End aa; & Sr. Reginald Bray,
Knight of the Garter. raised the Middle Chapel on the South thereof, & finished the Battlement

The Ceilling over the East part, which is an Excellent Peice of Workmanship, was done Hen.VII. by John Hylmer and Wm.Vertue Free Masons for £700: But that of the Centre & of the West Part, were done, at the Expence of ye Kts. Companions Anno 8 Hen.VIII. whose Arms wth. those of their Soverign are there Expres'd.

Hen.VII Also built that Stately Fabrick KS. next to the Star Building and Queen Elizabeth added to it, the Gallery T. and made the North Terrace Walk.

The Royal Lodgings Q.N.O.I.P.M. commonly called the Star-Building (from a Star fix'd on its Front) And Indeed ye greatest Part of the upper Ward was rebuilt by Charles II. as having during the Usupration, run very much into Ruin.

The Circumference of the whole Castle, is 4180 Feet, Its Length from East to West, is 1480 Feet; And the Area, or Superficial Quantity of Ground, on which is Stands, including the Courts & c. Exclusive of ye Terrace Walks is 12 Acres, 2 Roods & 30 Potes."

From map: "Published pursuant to 8 Geo. II"

From map: "The Langley Sculp"