WARWICK 



century. 



At the well-known house of Compton Wyn- 

 yates an octagonal dovecote stands in an orch- 

 ard. It is of brick, with stone corners; has a 

 height of thirty-five feet, a diameter of eight- 

 een, and the very moderate wall thickness of 

 one foot ten inches. Inside are some six hund- 

 red L-shaped nests. The potence was removed 

 some time ago. We shall probably be right in 

 assigning this dovecote to a date about 1 600. 



There is a fine circulardovecote of very con- 

 siderable age standing at "haunted Hillboro'," 

 a hamlet in the parish of Temple Grafton, not 

 far from Stratford-on-Avon. Of this example 

 particulars are unavailable; but fortunately it 

 is otherwise with the very interesting dovecote 

 at Kinwarton, near Alcester, a building on the 

 rector's glebe. It is, with fish-ponds, the only 

 surviving relic of a former moated grange which 

 belonged to the abbey of Evesham. 



Thedovecote, solidly constructed of stone in 

 rather thin layers, plastered externally, has an 

 internal diameter of seventeen feet two inches, 

 a height to the eaves of fifteen feet, and a wall 

 thickness of three feet seven inches. The roof, 



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