WARWICK ("the fortified place"), the county-town of Warwickshire, Eng land, 107% miles N. W. of London; chiefly situated on the S. shore of the Avon. On the opposite bank, crowning a solid rock, stands Warwick Castle, rear ing its towers, Csar's (147 feet) and Guy's (128 feet), above the cedars of the surrounding park and storing with in its state apartments rich tapestries, pictures by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Rubens, collections of armor and other rarities, among them the famous "War wick vase." St. Mary's Church, mainly rebuilt in 1704, retains its old Perpen dicular choir and Beauchamp chapel (1370-1391), with the tombs of four cen turies of Warwick's earls; over the E. gate is an ancient chapel, till recently used as a free school; and Leicester's Hospital, founded for 12 brethren in 1571, is a quaint quadrangular building, with a Gothic chapel surmounting the Warwick Gate, a mighty kitchen, and vaulted hall, profusely adorned with its founder's cognizance, the Bear and Ragged Staff. The town itself, having
suffered much from fire, is generally mod ern, among the prominent buildings being a Roman Catholic Church, the county hall and courts, a domed market house, the county jail, a theater, and antiqua rian museum. Iron founding, brewing, and brickmaking are carried on, but agricultural produce forms the staple of the trade of Warwick. Pop. about 15,000. Traditionally connected with King Cym beline, its reputed founder in A. D. 1, and with Guy of Warwick, the vanquisher of the giant Colbrand, Warwick figures in "Domesday" with 261 houses, having earlier been sacked by Danes, but re stored by Ethelfleda, JElfred's daughter, in 914. William of Newburgh, a fol lower of the Conqueror, replaced her fortress by the castle, which Stephen surrendered to Prince Henry (1153), which was Edward IV.'s prison (1469), and which has been visited by many of England's kings. See Hawthorne's "Our Old Home."