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CAROLINE PARK 459 FOURTH PERIOD and the principal panels contain paintings signed N. Hevde, Inventor. This artist was an assistant to Antonio Verrio, an Italian painter who was invited to England by Charles n. to execute work at Windsor, Hampton Court, etc. The walls are panelled in wood, and the mantelpieces are large and ornamental, several having paintings in the panels over them. Adjoining the dining-room is a service-room, close to the narrow wheel- stair from the kitchen passage, and there is a small lift or elevator next the stair, which seems to have been original. The large apartments on the east are plainer, but the walls are panelled and painted. These were no doubt also reception-rooms. FIG. 893. Caroline Park. Interior of Room on First Floor. The south side of the quadrangle seems to have contained bedrooms and private or family rooms. These had a separate staircase in the south- east angle of the court. Fig. 893 shows the picturesque finishings of one of these apartments. In 1696 an alteration was made on the south side of the building, consisting chiefly of a new ashlar front (Fig. 894) built against the old wall, and two projecting pavilions added at the extremities of the front.