CHASTLETON 

 Si ... HOUSE, 



THE SEAT . 

 or 



Miss WHITMORE JONES. 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



THb House here illustrated is interesting in many ways. 

 To look at it one would say th.it its grey walls must 

 i- witnessed a good deal of history, and have 

 beheld the daily lives of some persons of note. It 

 :ld he a surmise amply justified by the t.M-. 

 ustleton belongs to a large class of country 

 . built in somewhat opulent times and i 



: characteristics of arclut.cture whuh took a 



in Tudor and Jacobean days, though touched w,th .1 Certain 



element of severity not found in all of tru-m. Charming. 



nly, the house is in fo in and character, richly pleivsluJ 



ill Mich characteristic examples of t'n- v\.',l c.irverS 



.irt U \y J stingu shed ho ses i the Jate. and, with nit, 



J with gardens fully appropriate to its style. 

 Centuries before the pre-ent Chastleton House was built, 

 tljere had been dwellers of importance on ihe spot. The 



,|iu-ror granted Ct-streton. as the place was then called, t 

 a Saxon that.e named Wigod, and with his daughter it p.i.v I 

 to the great Norman family of h'()\ley. It was perhaps one 

 of this Ii .use who fir>t l<>.>'.< name frrni the place, txjt the 

 Ce v tr tons did not continue 'ong, their rstate passing to the 

 family of Trillow, of whom Sir John, in n.i. ad I J the south 

 aisle to the church which Bardolt il<- (.rstreton liad built. 

 From the Trillows the manor passed to Sir John Bishopsden, 

 and with Sir J ihn's daughter Philippa to Sir William Cati-t\v. 

 Their son, Wihiam Clateshy, was the smu-what famous 

 Minister of Richard HI. .and Speaker of the House of Commons 

 in 1 484. who was taken at the battle d H s\\ orth and put 

 to death. Henry VII. confiscated the eM.it.-. hut they 

 were restored to William Cateshv's sun ( ieorge in I4<)'>. and 

 continued with his family until they came to Robert CaU-shy, 

 author of the Gunpowder Plot. 



THE DIAL IN THE BOX GAkDl.N. 



