GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



in the last century : " The present house forms a 

 quadrangle of ii4ft. in front by I3oft. in depth, 

 enclosing a court 68ft. by 4oft., laid out with parterres 

 of flowers, around which there was an open colonnade, 

 which is now formed into a close passage. The hall, 

 which is used as an eating-room, is 38ft. by 32ft., 

 and about 31 ft. in height, finished in the Gothic style, 

 with a grand ceiling. The drawing-room is an addi- 

 tion by the late baronet's father, and is 36ft. by 24ft. 

 The house includes a domestic chapel, and was sur- 

 rounded by a moat now chiefly filled up." When 

 Ormerod wrote, the fifth and last baronet, Sir Peter, 

 had recently died (1813). He was a gentleman well 

 known far beyond the bounds of his shire, where he 

 was a familiar figure in the hunting-field and kept a 

 pack of hounds. 



When the last baronet was dead, his estates 

 descended to his grand-nephew, Rowland Eyles 

 Egerton - Warburton, a member of another great 



and beguiled his leisure by writing sporting verses 

 for the delight of his friends of the Old Tarporley 

 Hunt Club. They possess uncommon spirit and 

 elegance, many of them are familiar to sporting men, 

 and it is pardonable to give one well-known verse, 

 often sung, taken from the delightful volume by th_- 

 builder ot the house we depict. His sporting verses 

 reached their eighth edition in 1887 : 



Stags in the forest lie, hares in the valley-o ! 

 Web-footed otters are spear'cl in the locks ; 

 Beasts of the chase that are not worth a Tally-ho 1 

 All are surpass'd by the gorse-cover fox ! 

 Fishing, though pleasant, 

 I sing not at present, 

 Nor shooting the pheasant, 



Nor lighting of cocks ; 

 Song shall declare a way, 

 How to drive care away, 

 I'ain and despair away, 

 Hunting the fox ! 



Such was the builder of Arley Hall. The house 

 was begun in 1833, and the work upon it was 



TO THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Cheshire family, whose father had added the name of 

 Warburton to his own patronymic. Mr. Egerton- 

 Warburton was a very prominent man in his shire, 

 and the builder of the new Arley Hall. To him it 

 owes its present aspect and much of the glory of its 

 gardens, though, since his deith in 1891, his son and 

 successor has very greatly beautified, arranged and 

 perfected the latter. The late Mr. Egerton- 

 Warburton was a gentleman of strong and genial 

 personality, who devoted himself to country pursuits, 

 the building of his house, and the improvement of his 

 estates. He was famous, too, in the hunting-field, 



continued during many subsequent years. It is an 

 example of the revived taste for Jacobean archi- 

 tecture, as Anthony Salvin understood it. The 

 lozenged brick contrasts well with the mellow stone. 

 The porch, with its coupled columns, fluted and 

 enriched, rises to the oriel window, which is adorned 

 below with the shields of the Warburtons and 

 Egertons, and above with a perforated cresting. 

 Higher still, upon pedestals, heraldic animals are 

 seated, each with a banneret, while above rises the 

 rich octagonal turret with its fretted cupola. The 

 flanking wall on either side, with mullioned windows 



