. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ill is upwards of nineteen inches thick and seventeen deep. In a four-light window on the south side of the Court, over a door leading to the Chapel, are very good coloured glass medallions of the reddragon crest; theone on the dexterside is surroundedby a blue border often Tudor roses. TheChapel, whose largewindow is a notablefeature outside, is atpresent only feature leftis the screen ofwhitewashed wooddividing it into twoparts with a gate inthe centre ; this isworth noting be-cause of its carvedpanels at the head,which
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ill is upwards of nineteen inches thick and seventeen deep. In a four-light window on the south side of the Court, over a door leading to the Chapel, are very good coloured glass medallions of the reddragon crest; theone on the dexterside is surroundedby a blue border often Tudor roses. TheChapel, whose largewindow is a notablefeature outside, is atpresent only feature leftis the screen ofwhitewashed wooddividing it into twoparts with a gate inthe centre ; this isworth noting be-cause of its carvedpanels at the head,which probably came from Fulbroke, being of the medieval religious grotesque epoch. The great window is said to have been removed during the Civil War to Balliol College, Oxford, where the two shields of arms are still to be found in one of the north windows of the Chapel. In the south-west angle of the quadrangle lies the traditional jail, a dark, stone-floored room, with a low barred window; more likely used as a cellar, or kitchen for the garrison, as the. A CORNER IN THE COUNCIL-ROOM Compton Wmates 281 staircase outside leads up to the Barracks. Another curiosity isthe lions head carved in stone inserted in the courtyard wall by thebuttery window, which is said to have run with wine on festiveoccasions ; a stone basin is fixed underneath. Close to the house,but surrounded now by trees, is an old brick dovecote ; a pitchedstone path formerly led beside it from the house to the mill-pool,the descent of the water to which from the moat came throughtwo stew-ponds, all of which remain, and a pleasant, dreamy littlepath it still is. It is interesting to note that the pool was ob-tained in nil probability by excavating clay to make bricks for thehouse. Some of the old red ridge-tiles on the roof still retaintheir oak-leaf cresting, making a nice finish. Just beyond thedovecote is the Church, interesting as of a style and date veryuncommon in church-building. The original one, in which t
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