BUCKINGHAM 



ments are four feet high, by two feet ten inches 

 wide; but the actual space between the sill and 

 lintel is but three feet, and between the side- 

 posts one foot eleven inches. 



Passing now into Buckinghamshire we find 

 several dovecotes of interest. At Haversham, 

 in a field east of the Manor House, is a seven- 

 teenth-century example ofstone; square, with 

 a pyramid-shaped tiled roof, surmounted by a 

 good oaken lantern. A panel in the north wall 

 bears the legend "1665 M.T." The dovecote is 

 still fitted with nests, and, unlike some others in 

 the county, is in good repair. 



At Clifton Reynes is, or lately was, a circular 

 dovecote, the walls of which have a slight set-off 

 near the top. The thatched roof is crowned by 

 a small lantern. N ests are fitted in the thickness 

 of the walls. B ut the whole building was, a short 

 time back, in such dilapidation that it may have 

 been pulled down. 



At Church Farm, Edlesborough, there ex- 

 ists, in company with a sixteenth-century barn 

 and the remains of a moat, a square brick dove- 

 cote built in the late seventeenth century, with 

 a tiled roof, and fitted with brick nests. To the 



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