THE VALLEY OP WINTERBOURNE. XXXIX. 



view of the exterior of the church of St. Nicholas, built, like 

 so many others, of courses of flint and ashlar, and in the 

 Early English style. 



The south doorway lias a beautiful feathered inner-arch. In 1873, when 

 it was restored from designs by Mr. George E. Street, R.A., the eminent archi- 

 tect, who made a special study of the Early English period of architecture, 

 the north aisle was added, and a memorial window to Mrs. Michel. 



In Little's Farmhouse, in this parish, there is to be seen some rncient 

 heraldic glass, in w'.iich the griffin rampant of the Dacombes is associated 

 with the arms of the families with whom they intermarried. 



WINTERBOURNE ANDERSON. 



The next stopping place was Winterbourne Anderson. 

 The charming manor house is under internal repair, but Mrs. 

 Gratrix, the owner, had kindly given the Club leave to view 

 the outside. An alternative name for this parish was in 

 olden times Fyve Ash. Probably the " five ashes " which 

 gave the name to the place have long since decayed or been 

 cut down, although the " nine elms " after which the 

 locomotive works of the L. and S.W.R. in London are named 

 are said to be still growing in Nine Elms-lane. 



William de Stokes held the manor in the reign of Edward I. In the 36th 

 year of Edward III. that well-known Dorset family, the Turbervilles, of Bere 

 Regis, came into possession. In the 29th year of Henry VI. it passed to the 

 Mortons, of Melcombe. In 1620 Sir John Tregonwell, of Milton Abbey, 

 purchased the manor of Sir George Morton, and two years later built the 

 house so typical of the domestic architecture of the period. It is quadrangular 

 on plan, built of red brick with massive stone quoins. Three gables, formerly 

 surmounted with ball finials, as at Montacute and other houses of the period, 

 combine with the tall, elegantly grouped chimneys to relieve the house of any 

 flatness and stiffness, while " the mellow reds and greys of the brickwork " 

 are a feast of colour to the artist's eye. Inside the house the floor and main 

 staircase are of oak, with especially good balustrades. 



WINTERBOURNE TOMSON. 



By the leave of Mr. W. E. Genge, the party went over the 

 manor house of Winterbourne Tomson, which has some 

 Elizabethan windows, with stone mullions and jambs and 



