



THE ALPINE (JAUhl V. 





is in the panelling, -r aloft in the plaster perhaps, of his ancient 

 heraldry, with many a sentence carved in .1 strange, unfamiliar 

 tongue. She has bedaubed the oaken wainscot with white- 

 wash, clothes from the washing are hung on the rail of the 

 minstrels' gallery, and broad sheets ,,i -l.iss till the pl.K 

 beautiful latticed panes. But the old builders were men w host- 

 pegged and jointed oak. whose solid stonework, and whose 

 mellow brick will long defy the blasts of time, and such pi 

 are not seldom capable of being regenerated from d< 

 Can tl>ere be ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 anything more 

 satisfactory to 

 the lover of 

 country !ife than 

 such w<nk 

 that Mr. Fiower 

 has so succ 

 fully accom- 

 plished at 

 Tangkry ? 



n Tang- 

 ley is a place of 

 known an- 

 tiquity. King 

 John, according 

 to the country 

 people, had a 

 hunting lodge on 

 the site. The 

 place passed 

 from the Crown 

 in 1175, when 

 John granted it 

 to John de Fay, 

 and it descended 

 from parent to 



(I/. 



AS IMS, 



child until the year IS/J, through the gre.it families ( MM 

 Mowbf ay, and Howard. Shortly before the execution of Thim.is 

 H"tv.ird, tourth Unke "I Norfolk. Lord Higl) Ireasun-r and 

 Karl-Marshal, in th.it yr.u. the maimr was s-.ld to John C.iryl. 

 who altered it consiiler.thly, and added the beautiful half- 

 timbered front in n2. From the .lesa-nd.mts '; (..irylthe 

 Manor of Tangle) passed in the List century t.> Sir HeUher 

 Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, and from the 

 Speaker's descendant. Lord (irantley, Mr. Wickham Flower 



bought the 

 decayed manor 

 house and f.irm 

 ID tin 



The principal 



fracture) 



tions rna.! 

 the ii' 







lion of a building 

 at the we-; 

 and the v|u.iint 



I \\ .is , in 

 I XX -. and ! the 

 library and the 

 riMtms over it. HI 

 the ye.u |X<,;. 

 The arcfuteit 

 A -is Mr. Philip 

 Webb, who, in. 

 spired by the 

 spirit of the old 

 builders, Ins 



tied fea- 



\iellrntly 

 in 

 with tnc Idci 





