SOUTH WRAXALL MANOR, 



WILTSHIRE. 



SOUTH \\K\\\II. is a very cclcSrated 

 s|x-cimcn <>t fifteenth century architecture, 

 well known to all students. The place under- 

 went some reconstruction in the reign of" 

 Elizabeth, and again in the time of June* I., when its 

 remarkable and beautiful fireplaces and mantels, 

 with much panelling, were added. It has had the 

 happy fortune in these later times to tall upon good 

 and seemly days, for Mr. Richardson Cox, with the eye 

 ot imagination, recognising its capabilities, venerating 

 its character and appreciating its extraordinary archi- 

 tectural interest, took it in hand, and between 1900 

 and 1902, with the assistance of Mr. A. C. Martin, as 

 his architect, made it the beautiful place we illustrate. 

 Much thought and excellent judgment have l>ccn 



exercised in this regeneration of South Wraxall 

 Manor, which, from partial decay, has been restored 

 with fidelity to its original character. To remove any 

 modern incongruities, and to preserve whatever the 

 fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had 

 bestowed ujton the manor house, seem to have been 

 the objects, and lovers of our domestic architecture 

 will be grateful to Mr. Cox for his careful preservation 

 of .1 ven celebrated example, while many will In- 

 interested by and charmed with the lovely gardens 

 which he has created alxuit it. 



The manor house stands about three miles north- 

 \vesf of the old Wiltshire clothing town of Bradford, 

 in a district wliich i- singularly rich in gcxnl archi- 

 tect .ire, b.ith do:ne-.tic and ecclesiastical. Here was 



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