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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



picturesqueness. There are 

 greater places of more st.ttely 

 aspect, richer in tlieir adorn- 

 ments and grander in their 

 proportions, hut it is difficult 

 to imagine anything more 

 attractive than that front of 

 this Dorsetshire house wlrch 

 lo ks out into the grassy fore- 

 court. The place is said t-> 

 have been erected in the tinu 

 (f Henry VII., and there is 

 little doubt that some parts of 

 it go back as far, though 

 mani estly many details belong 

 to a more recent date, when 

 the Renaissance had carried 

 the classic spirit into the 

 domestic architecture of Eng- 

 land. Many additions were 

 made in the reign of Queen 

 Hlixalxth, and the balustrade 

 is pe:haps of that time, and 

 later than the structure itself. 

 Much older certainly is the 

 wing which looks into the 

 forecourt from the side, with 

 its extremely quaint angle 

 shafts and the singular beauty 



i.f its mullioned windows, and to a much later d.ite be! ing the 

 very fine and characteristic gate-posts crested by eagles with 

 expanded wings. 



In the time of Henry I, the manor belonged to a family 

 bearing the name of Bryte, and, after passing through many 

 hands, it came in 1604 by marriage to Richard Broderipp, from 

 whose family it went, again by marriage, t;i that of the present 

 owner, for Catherine Richards, the great-grandd tighter of 

 Richard Broderipp, married in 1780 ,V\r. John Compton of the 

 Manor Hou-e, Minstead, who was tl.e grandfather of the late 



THE AVENUE AND STABLES. 



Mr. Henry Compton. In the hands of successive owners the 

 place has undergone various modifications, but there is nothing 

 to mar its extremely beautiful character. It will be observed 

 that great richness characterises the house. Externally, the 

 twisted clrmneys, the finely moulded mullions and transoms, 

 the admirible character of the doorway and porch adornments, 

 and the well-proportioned feature of the balustrade, are exam- 

 ples of what we say. It will be remarked also that the bays 

 of the structure are extremely fine, and that the gateway has 

 a strongly individualised character. Within, the ceiling of the 



THE HENRY VII. V\ING. 



