Memorials of old Northamptonshire . them. Their date is 1586, and they wereevidently designed with intent to hold the shield con-taining the fourteen quarterings of Sir Christopher panels of irregular sandstone are curious, and whetherthey were meant to be faced or not, they certainly givecolour to the arches. The present entrance gateway, dated 1659, is well donefor its date, and some of the detail is evidently copiedfrom the earlier ones. A portion of the woodwork ofthe house, doubtless part of the hall screen, now formsthe screen in the church, and the two excellent woodenfigures
Memorials of old Northamptonshire . them. Their date is 1586, and they wereevidently designed with intent to hold the shield con-taining the fourteen quarterings of Sir Christopher panels of irregular sandstone are curious, and whetherthey were meant to be faced or not, they certainly givecolour to the arches. The present entrance gateway, dated 1659, is well donefor its date, and some of the detail is evidently copiedfrom the earlier ones. A portion of the woodwork ofthe house, doubtless part of the hall screen, now formsthe screen in the church, and the two excellent woodenfigures of Roman soldiers belong to it. The gardens were elaborately laid out with pleasantmounts, a bowling green, and a rosery in the centre ofthe great plateau which flanked by eight terraces on eitherside and crowned by the Kings Walk, sloped downto the fish-ponds by the church. Traces of other gardens 1 Through England on a Side Saddle in the time oj William and was then the property of the Earl of Feversham. 2 Page t3 H I I i [ Sir Christopher Hatton. 241 were formerly to be seen in the adjacent green fields, intowhich they had returned. Much has now been reclaimedand laid out again a la moderne. But the old lay-outhas been taken no account of, and the historic KingsWalk, 320 yards long, perhaps after that at Windsor themost historic platform in England, on which the troubledKing paced rapidly to and fro with the Earl of Pembroke,has been heedlessly planted into. Even now, in its diminished splendour, there is no fairerplace in all the Midlands, and no more charming view,speaking to our minds alike of the historic past and thepeaceful present, than that seen from Holdenby, in itscommanding stately position, looking across the greenpastures stocked with sheep and oxen and studded withnoble trees, to the wooded heights of Althorpe the sportsman, if not to the litterateur, it has all beenendowed with life by Whyte Melville in Hohnby House. The sadness
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