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Open cupola, and the whole building is in good 

 repair. 



Exceeding both these dovecotes in respect 

 of massiveness of walls are the two found re- 

 spectively at Wick, near Pershore, and at the 

 Manor House, Cleeve Prior. That at Wick, 

 where the walls have a thickness of four feet, 

 is seventy-five feet round, and holds some thir- 

 teen hundred nests. It is constructed of a 

 greyish-yellow stone, which has once been 

 covered with plaster; stands upon sloping 

 ground, is supported by three buttresses, and 

 has a single dormer window in the roof The 

 potence is in place. 



Of still moresolid construction, having walls 

 four feet six inches thick, is the Cleeve Prior 

 dovecote. Thepotenceisabsent; and although 

 the building is sixty feet in circumference 

 it only contains four hundred and fifty nests. 

 These are provided with alighting-ledges at 

 every third tier — a not uncommon arrange- 

 ment. The dovecote is in good repair, and is, 

 moreover, still applied to its original use. 



One of the most charming — perhaps, indeed, 

 the most charming — of all Worcestershire 



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