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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



closely adja- 

 cent to the 



church, in the 



r.i i d s t o f a 



spacious park, 



with belts of 



majestic trees 



on either hand, 



and ornamentr. 1 



groups stand- 

 ing by the 



water-side. 

 The Gores 



of Barrow 



Court passed 

 away also, and 

 the misfortune 

 of neglect crept 

 over the perfec- 

 tions of their 

 house. Some- 

 what sad was 



the state into which it had fallen when Mr. Gibbs began 

 the work of regeneration, and now we may see by the 

 pictures what it has become in his hands. Let it be noted 

 fin-t that its neighbour is the church, and that misfortune 

 had overtaken thi church as well as the hou<e. Up to 

 1659 it retained some of its conventual features, but in 1823 

 the fabric was enlarged in very poor style. Mr. Gibbs 

 restored it, and well was the work accomplished. 



The house also grew into new beauty without great struc- 

 tural change, and the Jacobean entrance and many gables still 

 face the park as in the days of the Gores. It is a fine and 

 imposing facade with a grand play of light and shade upon its 

 surface, and the grouping with the structure of the church is 

 extremely beautiful. From whichever side we survey the place 



THE TERRACE. 



in part for themselves. It is an 

 will be discovered, and, p.ice those 

 the architect to the barrier of the 



it presents an 

 ;U tractive pic- 

 ture indeed. 

 The character- 

 istic gables look 

 out over the 

 gardens, and at 

 the rear the 

 multioned 

 windows and 

 oriel and t!ie 

 long steep roofs 

 face the vener- 

 able tithe bam, 

 an embodiment 

 of quaintness, 

 and the only 

 relic of the old 

 farm buildings. 

 Our p i c - 

 tures of the 

 gardens speak 

 architect's garden, as 

 who would hold back 

 housewall, it is not 



to be gainsaid that the effect is very fine. The long terrace 

 witli the yew hedges and descents is most excellent, and 

 the architectural courts at either end, in simplicity and 

 appropriateness of character, would be hard to excel. Then 

 how very delightful is the idea of figuring the months of the 

 year on a segment of a circle by busts lifted aloft on p'ers. 

 The garden is a monitor of the passage of time. It bears on 

 its face the signs of changing seasons. From the slumbrous 

 winter earth rise the heads of the fragrant spring flowers ; from 

 the stem, seeming dead, bursts the fruit-promising blossom ; all 

 reaches fruition, and all in its turn decays, yet with the presage 



A GAkUEN-HOUSE AND TEMPLE. 



