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open cupola, and the whole building is in good 

 repair. 



Exceeding both these dovecotes in respect 

 of massiveness of walls are the two found re- 

 spectively at Wick, near Pershore, and at the 

 Manor House, Cleeve Prior. That at Wick, 

 where the walls have a thickness of four feet, 

 is seventy-five feet round, and holds some thir- 

 teen hundred nests. It is constructed of a 

 greyish-yellow stone, which has once been 

 covered with plaster; stands upon sloping 

 ground, is supported by three buttresses, and 

 has a single dormer window in the roof The 

 potence is in place. 



Of still moresolid construction, having walls 

 four feet six inches thick, is the Cleeve Prior 

 dovecote. The potence is absent; and although 

 the building is sixty feet in circumference 

 it only contains four hundred and fifty nests. 

 These are provided with alighting-ledges at 

 every third tier — a not uncommon arrange- 

 ment. The dovecote is in good repair, and is, 

 moreover, still applied to its original use. 



One of the most charming — perhaps, indeed, 

 the most charming — of all Worcestershire 



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