88 The East Anglian Earthquake.
Fig. 11.—Doorway at Peldon, showing loosened bricks.
Inside the house (Wivenhoe Hall) the upper rooms were much
injured by wreckage, and the walls distinctly cracked in many
places. On one of the landings an oblique crack in the E.
wall had an inclination towards the N. of 40° with the
horizon; another crack in the N. wall of one of the upper
bedrooms had an eastward inclination of about 60°. The
tower and chimneys of the stable were cracked, and the
entrance-lodge suffered by the loss of its chimneys and a
portion of the ornamental gable. Mr. Jackson informed me
that in the kitchen a clock with pendulum swinging N. and
S. was stopped, but the dining-room clock, swinging E. and
W., was not stopped. With respect to his own experience,
Mr. Jackson has published the following statement:—