. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. licence in Henry reignfor carrying out their charitable purpose. Ofthis distinguished couple we shall speak presently. The quaint courtyard of the almshouse, other-wise St. Johns Hospital, is entered by a brickbattlemented archway, flanked by buttresses withblocked-in Early English trefoiled arch over thesegmental pointed doorway. An array of tall chimneys and gabled dormerwindows adds to the general picturesque the cloistered courtyard is by far the mostinteresting feature of the building, and the vistaobtained along these open corridors, mad
. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. licence in Henry reignfor carrying out their charitable purpose. Ofthis distinguished couple we shall speak presently. The quaint courtyard of the almshouse, other-wise St. Johns Hospital, is entered by a brickbattlemented archway, flanked by buttresses withblocked-in Early English trefoiled arch over thesegmental pointed doorway. An array of tall chimneys and gabled dormerwindows adds to the general picturesque the cloistered courtyard is by far the mostinteresting feature of the building, and the vistaobtained along these open corridors, made cheer-ful and bright by the rows of flowers betweeneach oaken support, recalls in point of contrastthe poor old Biggin at Hitchin. Above thecentre of each lean-to roof arises a gabled timber-framed porch with open wooden mullions cuspedat the apex like the stone windows of the school-house. The carved tracery of the fifteenth cen-tury barge-boards above is full of rich the deeper roof of the upper storey appears 224. Porch, Ewelme
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