68 The East Anglian Earthquake.
new, but with very heavy cornices, were thrown down, and a
similar one was twisted two or three inches; a bronze
statuette, weighing about 10 lbs., on a base five or six inches
in diameter, and of which the centre of gravity was well within
its base, was thrown off the mantelpiece. There were cracks
in various places, and not one upstairs room was habitable,
owing to the roof being broken in by falling chimney-stacks.
In a row of three cottages, facing S.W., out of six chimney-
stacks, only one was standing, viz., at the S.E. end, the
N.W. stacks having in all cases suffered most; the N.W. end
of each cottage had three or four large cracks twenty or
thirty feet long, nearly or quite across it in a slanting
direction, the top apparently having been thrust forward two
or three inches; the S.E. ends appeared to be in their original
positions; from the inside of the cottages daylight could be
seen through the walls in many places."
Amongst other instances of destruction here may be men-
tioned a large, modern, strongly-built house, occupied by
Mr. G. Holland, which was shattered and rent in all direc-
tions. In this house two gallon cans filled with milk nearly
to the brim, which were being warmed in an oven, lost about
half a gallon of their contents, by the movement to which
the building was subjected. The "Rose" Inn was also much
wrecked, the roof at both ends being stripped of its tiles, the
walls cracked and bulged, and a large, substantially-built
stack broke through the centre of the roof, and through the
rooms below to the basement, leaving a large gap. Two other
stacks were twisted about three inches from E. by N. to W.,
these chimneys being supported by iron stays below the plane
of fracture. It has been reported by a witness that " the
whole house appeared to upheave, and the middle of the roof
to open, when the mass of falling bricks and chimney-pots
tumbled into the interior." The village school-house was
much damaged in the roof and the walls cracked.
Peet Tye Hall (Langenhoe) and Moor Farm, both to the
east of the village, were damaged, the latter considerably. In
this last place Mr. Symons reports that " a piano standing on
the S.E. side of a wall running S.S.W. to N.N.E. remained