V THE COURTS, TERRACES, WALKS iii 



this garden has disappeared but one old cedar. 

 The terrace was frequently continued round the 

 two remaining sides of the garden, so that a 

 commanding view of the garden is got from 

 every side, as at Montacute. In this garden the 

 terrace next the house has a wall on the garden 

 side. The other three terraces are formed with 

 a grass slope to the gardens and flights of steps 

 ill the centre of every side. At Brickwall there 

 is a rather unusual variation. There is no ter- 

 race in front of the house, but a paved brick 

 path with flights of six steps at either end com- 

 municates with a raised walk 8.9 wide, which 

 runs round the other three sides of the garden. 

 The garden itself is raised three steps above the 

 level of the path in front of the house. Raised 

 walks, as described above, are shown in Logan's 

 views of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, and Balliol 

 and Oriel at Oxford. Bowling-greens were 

 usually surrounded by raised terraces, and in 

 important gardens terraces or causeways were 

 sometimes laid out across the middle of the 

 garden to enable the parterres to be properly 

 seen. There is a good instance of this in the 

 Privy Garden at Hampton Court, also at Pack- 

 wood, and at Ven House in Somerset. Switzer 

 says these terraces should be raised between 2.6 

 and 3.6 above the garden. The terrace at 

 Risley, in Derbyshire, is at some distance from 

 the house, and runs along one side of the garden 

 and beyond it. The terrace is separated from 



