324 Notes on Spye Park and Bromham. 
to me probable that there was a small house or hunting lodge here 
whilst”Bromham Hall still existed, and that this was made the 
principal residence of the family when the Hall was destroyed. The 
name “Spy Park Lodg,” given to it by Dingley, in itself suggested 
this.! ; 
- The old stables still remain with very little alteration, forming a 
picturesque building with five gables and many windows to the north 
side. Seen from a little distance, it might well be supposed earlier ; 
but, judging from a round arched doorway, now walled up, in the 
western end, which appears to be original, and from the cap mould- 
ings of the chimneys, I should think that the whole was built as 
offices, by Sir Edward Baynton, in the seventeenth century. 
Of the fragments of old work,? found re-used as building material 
in the more modern walls of the house, two specimens of elaborately 
carved stone-work were preserved.* Itis, I think, impossible to say 
to what part of the building they may have belonged. The work 
is no doubt of Henry the Eighth’s time, and is remarkable rather for 
richness of ornament than for beauty_of design. These fragments, 
and the gate-way shortly to be described, fully bear out the tradition 
of the magnificent character of Bromham Hall, which has been 
described as “nearly as large as Whitehall, and a pale fit to 
entertain a king.” 
The ruins of Bromham Hall were used as a quarry, whether by 
the Sir Edward Baynton who so extensively altered the house we 
do not know, but certainly at a later date, and one of the family, 
Sir Edward Baynton Rolt, had taste enough not to destroy, but 
rather to remove bodily, the gate-house which now stands at the 

1 This conjecture has since been confirmed, for I am informed by Mrs. Starky 
that it is considered certain that this took place. But for this confirmation, I 
could not have felt completely confident of conclusions arrived at in a single 
short visit, as it is easy to be mistaken, at first-sight, in the date of a building, 
and debased Perpendicular details lingered long in this neighbourhood. 
? Originally, beyond all reasonable doubt, from Bromham Hall. 
3 These fragments have been, since the visit of the Society, built into a —~ 
recess in a terrace wall for protection. My thanks-are due to J. W. G. Spicer, 
Esq., of Spye Park, for permission to make use of a photograph taken for him 
in the preparation of the accompanying illustration. 

