OXFORD 



square and eighteen feet in height. The walls 

 are two feet thick and the steep roof is tiled. 

 The lowest compartment is entered by a fairly 

 high but narrow doorway, and lighted by a 

 broad low window with heavy stone muUions. 

 The second story has a doorway which has not 

 beenopenedforsomeyears; and the nest-holes, 

 if any still remain, are confined to one, or per- 

 haps both, of the upper floors. The building 

 seems to be of fourteenth-century date. 



Acurious and picturesque upper-story dove- 

 cote may be seen at Northmoor, close to the 

 church and to a fine old house which was once 

 the rectory. It is of timber, with tiled roof, and 

 stands partly over an open archway and partly 

 over aground-floor building. It is some twenty- 

 five feet long and has a four-gabled cupola in 

 the middle of the roof-ridge. Entrance is by a 

 trap-door from the building below. 



