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BROUGHTON CASTLE, 



BANBURY, . . . 



OLD'&NEW THE RESIDBNCB op 



GARDENS 



Lord Algernon Gordon Lennox. 



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Castle being in the 

 market. it- noble 

 cnaracter and m.inv tv-iulie* commended it ti> l.ord 



( , Lennox, int. i whose hands it 



passed, .uul the latter bec.ime its presiding genius. N..IK-, 



: the mo>t stately limn.- ' I inland. Could 



more absolutely appropriate lor this 



volume than tliis, for in Broti-liton Castle as it st.m S now, 



T .thereabouts of loving care, there is an 



unrivalled example of the triumphant results which may 



.ichieved by cultivated modern taste in dealing with an 



ent edifice and its surroundings, I'lie tahric it stands 



:c ttw reader's eye ill many asfvct is in part, at any 



nt-uly si\ Centuries ..Id ; the ^arde:is h.ue I veil but tour 



s in the making. Yet the wh..le is a harmony. 



Something of architectural history, a measure "i ;illusioii to 



the part which Bmu^hton and its inmat.-s h.ive played in the 



nation's story, must needs be \s ntten in , ' ! ith a house 



of character so unique. [Irou^hton, re^ardin^ a lar-e 

 ..1 its structure, is .im -n- tlie earliest evamples ..t consul, -t.ible 

 domestic architecture in tiv^land winch still hou- 

 tain lies. It is in three distnut r<-no.|s, .iiul t t ~t >! 



tliest-. which can all but claim t > be of the thirteenth ventury, 

 Ivlon^s a |.ir-e and int.-!..-st!ii4 part of the present striutuie. 

 It was in the interval between noi and no; that John de 

 Brought'.!! built the ori-in l castu-. 01 in, early fourteenth 

 try work much still remains, and miv be studied in our 



pictures. His w.is the groined p.i--.i-c. graceful and Mtv. 

 leading to and fr.cn th.- Hall. The chapel with its stone altar 

 and live consecration c t II in position, the dining-room, 



the newel staircase, the priest's ro.,:n. the armoury, and the 

 hospital, with its beautiful Harly l:n^lish windows, were all 

 his work. But Broughton was not to remain in the hands ( ,t 

 the De Brouuhtons for any lonu time. In I V*), it was bought 

 by William of Wykeh.iiii, fatlu-r of our public schools, and 

 prince of artists iii architecture. The very ' I the 

 purchase is an example ->t Wykeham's ma-nit'K'-n;e. 



THE GREAT SUNDIAL. 



