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Citlje §avn, flace Jfavni fekrg/ 



By E. TowRY Whyte, F.S.A. 



In connection with the accompanying illustrations of the Tithe 

 Barn at Place Farm, Tishury, a short note on the rest 

 of the buildings may not be out of place, as it is an interesting 

 example of an old grange. It was part of the possessions of the 

 Abbey of Shaftesbury, and it is said that the Abbess used to visit 

 it for the purpose of receiving the tithes. The present buildings 

 exhibit one of the most perfect plans of a mediteval farm to 

 be found in this country, consisting of a gateway with a large 

 archway and side doorway, and formerly a porter's room — 

 now destroyed. This gateway has large buttresses facing the 

 roadway ; the lower part seems to be late thirteenth century work 

 (Decorated), over which has been added a late fifteenth century 

 room, approached by an external stone stairway. This room has 

 been called a chapel, but there is no evidence that it was such ; 

 it is more likely a room for the servants or for casual visitors to 

 be entertained in for the night. After entering this gateway and 

 crossing a large open space in a slightly diagonal direction, a 

 second entrance is arrived at, but this is only a foot passagt willi 

 a porter's room on the east side, entered by a door in the passage ; 

 here, also, an external stone stairway leads to a room over which 

 is said to have been the Abbess's private room. A little way 

 beyond this second entrance is the present house, which, I tliink, 

 originally consisted of a large hall and kitchen with a small room 

 off from the hall ; but additions have been made and the interior 

 entirely altered to adapt it to a modern residence, so that it is 

 difficult now to say what the arrangement was in the fifteenth 



' This note with the accompanying illustrations appeared in The Reliquary, 

 January, 1907, and is here reprinted by permission. 



