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at the Manor House, Pilton. Both house and 

 barn belonged to Glastonbury Abbey. The 

 dovecote, standingin theyard, is a square stone 

 building of no particular beauty, and is now at- 

 tached to other buildings. The length is eight- 

 een feet, the breadth some two feet less, and 

 height to gable of the tiled roof twenty-five 

 feet. Several hundred nest-holes are still seen 

 within. This dovecote, like the one previously 

 noticed, is buttressed. The suggestion that it 

 is of very early date is confirmed by the good 

 thickness of the walls — three feet four inches. 

 One window faces south, another west. The 

 doorwayon the ground level is clearly amodern 

 addition, the original entry having been by a 

 small door placed high in the north wall, and 

 doubtless reached by a ladder. 



At Ivythorn Manor, Street, we have an ob- 

 long dovecote, measuring thirty and a half feet 

 by twenty-one and a half. There is a gabled 

 roof, the tiles on which have clearly been re- 

 newed in modern times. The whole north end 

 has also been rebuilt, a barn-door being insert- 

 ed, and the former nests removed. The three 

 remaining sides contain nests to the number 



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