HYLAND
When HYLAND editor Kyle Marshall
made a voyage to London, first on his list of places to
see was Syon House, London residence of the Duke
of Northumberland, whose family has been ensconced
there for 400 years. He wanted to behold the Robert
Adam style in its purest inaugural form, for the famed
Adam style, at once neoclassical and eclectic, is said to
have begun at Syon.
Originally the site of a medieval abbey, Syon was named
after Mount Zion in the Holy Land. Although the abbey
was dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1539, it not only
retains traces of the Bridgettine Order to which it was
dedicated, but has become a Holy Land of a different,
The Great Hall
