[129] The house at Caen, is that which is here alluded to.--It has already been mentioned, that the _Great House_ at Andelys has suffered the same fate. Since the account of that circumstance was written, the author of the present article has been favored with the following extract from a letter from Lord Compton, dated in August last:--"The noble _grande maison d'Andelys_, is now, alas, no more! We made a _détour_ by a horrible road, for the purpose of visiting it; but great was our mortification to find only a small piece of unornamented wall, the sole vestige which the barbarians had left standing; and _that_ is now probably destroyed--and 'green grass grows where Troy-town stood.' I need hardly say, that I derived a great deal of pleasure from a three-days' stay at Rouen; after which we made an excursion to St. Georges de Bocherville and Jumieges, and were highly interested and pleased by both.--Oh! that the Vandals would leave the abbey of Jumieges, even in its present state of dilapidation! In a few years, with the mellowing tints of time, and the ornament of a little ivy and vegetation, it would be one of the most picturesque and beautiful ruins in Europe; but, alas! it is in vain to hope it. Cotman's representations of Jumieges and Andelys will now be doubly valuable." [130] Figured and described in _Britton's Architectural Antiquities_, II. p. 105. [131] See _Turner's Tour in Normandy_, I. p. 157. [132] One of the most curious buildings of this description, the ancient abbey of St. Amand, was not only rich to the greatest degree of profusion in its decorations, but derived a peculiar interest from their being almost wholly carved in wood. This building is now nearly destroyed; but, fortunately, some of its principal features are recorded in four of the plates of M. de Jolimont's _Monumens de la Normandie_. [133] _Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour through France_, &c. I. p. 101. [134] _Tour in Normandy_, I. p. 200. [135] On the front of the new house, which has lately been erected upon the spot that was occupied by this, have been fastened the two medallions here represented: these alone were saved from the general destruction. [136] _Turner's Tour in Normandy_, II. p. 170. [137] _Essais Historiques sur la Ville de Caen_, I. p. 310. PLATE LXVI. CHURCH OF TRÉPORT. [Illustration: Plate 66. TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF TRÉPORT, NEAR EU.]