LYPIATT PARK, 

 GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 



THE SEAT OF ... 



SIR ). E. DORINGTON, Bart. 



S\\> .!. E. nORINGTO.VS hmse i.i the Cotswlds is one 

 o! the finest purely media-val houses in tilmu> 

 shire. It is not a feudal castle, like Berkeley Castle, 

 ur reC'-nsmuteJ on Tudor-Italian lines like Stanwav . 

 Hit a house <>f the sixteenth Century in p 

 vatmn. The emKittleJ porch and other features have 

 been added <ther with certain other extensions in 



the orijMial stv le. But except the curious toweis and toureU - 

 in the garden, due ! a ta-te lor adding lortilications to olJ 

 ,!omestic architectural building. ;( t.iste which the lay ovvneis 

 of Beaulieu A indulged early in theet-htee-ith century, 



there is very little at l.ypiatt which miht not have formed 

 part a ru1 ^inal. Though built on a smaller 



scale anJ at an earlier elate, there are ma:iy p-ints ,-t 

 resemblance bet A een l.ypiatt and Ford Abb.-y in [>"-.^ tshire. 

 There is the same unity t design, the N.uue half-Collegiate 

 look, the same letention of the dwelling-rooms and apartnieirs 

 for their original purpose. The i;reat hall is a feature in both. 

 But at Lypiatt it is in the centre of the building, and is lighted 

 by a graceful and \vell-propoi tn>ne.l bay \vindo\v, f.imin- a 



shall' AV rece-s from the ground up \> tin- spring of 

 I here is no evidence that l.ypatt was ever a reh-ious 

 foundation. n- Uv ithst.nulin^ the onsp;ai-us ih.ira. t.-r -.1 its 

 chapel. It has remained in laymen's hands m , ,uiry 



Horn the year 151$- Possibly some of the buildings are even 

 it earlier date. It is extremely interesting to know that 

 "Dick" Wh:ttin-ton, atteivvauN Lord Mayor of London, lent 

 to his uncle Philip Mans ; -l, the owner ot l.ypiatt in n>. a 

 sum "I /.'sOO. probably equal to /^,o:X3 of our money, on the 

 : l.ypiatt. The Whittm-tons, pio'.-ablv osvin^ t. 

 this tians.iction, wee the owii' rs ,.) the pb>e in 1.17*. an.l 

 weie lolln'\e.l in possession by the ta:ral;es ol Wye, Tlinik- 

 mortoii, and Stephens. 



The situat. on ot the house is loitv. The Cotswolds here 

 make a I ,i>-h continuous rid^e, with precipitous valleys .uttm- 

 them obliquely. ( >ne f the lushest and steepest of the bastions 

 forms the pai'k, studded with line elms and other timber, full 

 ot s-.M-rt hill pasture, and little bays and curves in tiie 

 unbosoming hill. On the summit, Soott. above the MM, and 

 almo-t at the holiest point in (il-ucestershire, st.in.ls the 



.few 





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THE DOVECOTt AND GRANARY. 



