A plan of the building was drawn by
Dr. Hook, a learned mathematician of
Gresham College, and upon his model it
was erected in an advantageous situation,
fronting the east, with grass plats before
it, adorned with rows of lime trees, and
inclosed with a handsome wall and iron
gates.  On the piers of the great gates at
the south end, are two stone statues, re-
presenting two of Aske's Hospital men,
in full proportion.  The principal part
of the building is only one story high
with garrets; where a portico with
twenty-one stone pillars extends on a
line on each side of the chapel, which is
placed in the middle, and on each side
above these pillars is a range of twenty-
two very small windows.  The pillars of
the chapel extend to the top of the first
story, and that edifice rising consider-
ably above the rest of the building, is
terminated by a handsome pediment;
with a clock, under which is the effigies