Among other apartments the following should be visited:  (1) The Chapel, with its fine Flemish windows representing scriptural stories, marble altar-piece, and open stalls; (2) the Winter Dining Room, looking out upon the N. terrace, about 30 feet square; this room contains many valuable pictures, including Wilkie’s Duke of Wellington, Van Somer’s James I. and Charles I., and Kneller’s Peter the Great; (3) Great Banqueting Hall; (4) Summer Dining Room, near the foot of the great staircase; the bust of Burleigh, in white marble, is above the door; (5) the Armoury, full of treasures “rich and rare,” suits of armour, relics of the Spanish Armada, various arms, etc.  Other pictures in various parts of the house include (1) William III., and Lady Ranelagh, by Kneller; (2) half-length of Elizabeth with jewelled head-dress and grotesquely embroidered gown; Mildred Coke, mother of the first earl; Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter:  all by Zucchero; (3) fine whole-length of Mary, first Marchioness of Salisbury, by Reynolds.

The Park is the largest in the county, being about 9 miles in circumference; it is undulating and beautifully wooded.  There are some superb avenues.  Of Queen Elizabeth’s oak, N.E. from the N. terrace, little is left saving a portion of trunk, railed round; but the Lion Oak, between the house and the great W. gates, still puts forth leaves in its season.  The maze close to the house is only less famous than that at Hampton Court.

The Church of St. Ethelreda is cruciform, largely Dec. and one of the largest in the county.  A Norman arch in the S. transept is thought to be a portion of the original structure.  It was completely restored, indeed almost rebuilt, in 1872.  The nave is 102 feet by 20 feet; the chancel about 40 feet by 20 feet.  There are N. and S. porches; the former looks almost directly upon the great gate-house of the old palace.  The most important among many features of interest is the—­

Salisbury Chapel, N. side of chancel, from which it is divided by an arcade of three arches on Ionic granite columns.  The whole is enclosed by beautifully designed iron gates, the work, probably, of an unknown Italian.  Note the marble wainscotting, and the finely conceived and executed allegorical paintings and mosaics on walls and roof.  At the E. side, on a slab of black marble supported by four kneeling figures in white marble (representing the cardinal virtues) lies the recumbent effigy of Sir Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, Lord High Treasurer of England (d. 1612).  The effigy is in robes, with official staff in hand.  Beneath the slab is a skeleton in white marble.  Note also in this chapel mezzo-relievo effigy to William Curll, Esq. (d. 1617), with inscription, almost illegible, to the effect that he was a most Christian knight who died in hope of a joyful resurrection.