By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 271 



The Manor House near was the seat of the LudlowSj and was 

 apparently built by them at about the middle of the Elizabethan 

 period and re-modelled in the south front and west end at about 

 1700 (after the manor had passed into the hands of the Cokers), to 

 which period {pace the local tradition that it was constructed for 

 cannofi !) I assign the oval window over the porch and the four-light 

 mullioned windows with elliptic heads. The date 1781 on the gate 

 piers refers doubtless to their erection. 



Adjoining the house on the east is a barn fifteen bays in length, 

 of early sixteenth century date : the superstructure had fallen over 

 westward before the erection of the house, which was, perhaps, built 

 to support it. 



In the farmyard south of the house are some interesting remains 

 of buildings of the end of the fifteenth century, and it seems not 

 improbable that this was the original site of the manor house. ^ The 

 parts existing seem to have been the gateway or porter^s lodge, for 

 the thickness of the walls (about 2ft.) would exclude their being 

 considered part of the main building. "What looks like the porch, 

 with a doorway about 5ft. 9in. wide, having the typical four-centred 

 arch under a square head, with a coeval niche over it (now occupied 

 by a shield), remains; also much of the walls and roof of the 

 building against which it was erected, and one window ; but the 

 plan is by no means easy to be traced, owing to the alterations 

 which have been made in incorporating it with the modern farm 

 buildings. 



Brixton Deveeill. S. Michael. 



This Church consists of chancel and nave with western tower. 



The lower part of the tower is thirteenth century work ; the 

 archway opening into the nave has two orders of chamfers, stopping 

 on square imposts, with square jambs below ; the belfry stage was 

 re-built in the fifteenth century, when the lancet window on the 

 south side was replaced. A new doorway has been inserted in the 



* For the drawing fi-om which the accompanying plate is taken the Society is 

 indebted to the kindness of Mr. Harold Biakspear, 



