A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke].

  • John Cooke
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two l'usticated piers, with iron gates, having one of the porters' lodges adjoining. On the rustic piers * of this entrance are placed two large stone globes, each six feet in diameter, one celestial, the other terrestrial. At the east entrance new iron gates, hand- somely decorated, have been lately fixed. In different parts of this extensive fabric, commo- dious apartments are provided for the Governor and principal officers, and wards are properly fitted up for the pensioners and nurses; who (together with the officers' families, inferior officers, and servants, resident within the walls) amount to nearly 3,400 persons, When we consider the beauty, solidity, and mag-, nificence, of this superb structure, and the excellent uses to which it is appropriated, it must ever be con- templated with reverence and admiration, as a work of national grandeur, and at the same time the noblest monument of wisdom and benevolence. * If these piers and globes were removed to the north gate on the terrace, adjoining the river (as hath been proposed), they would be seen to much greater advantage than in their present situation. B 2