BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



chamber floor. 



Turning now to dovecotes in the stricter 

 application of the term, where can one come 

 upon a dovecote more agreeably situated than 

 within the bounds of an old garden? Such a 

 pleasantlyplaced example offers for inspection 

 in the garden of Fulford Hall, near York. The 

 manor is a very old one, and the present owner 

 is no doubt correct in his surmise that the dove- 

 cote now standing, built towards the middle of 

 the eighteenth century, is the successor of an 

 older one. 



It is a square substantial structure of red 

 brick, well weathered by a century and half of 

 sun and storm. The length of wall is about 

 twenty feet, the height eighteen. Upon the 

 old red roof is placed a cupola. 



Inside are about seven hundred and fifty L- 

 shaped nests, still to some extent occupied by 

 pigeons. They are arranged upon each wall in 

 fourteen tiers, from twelve to fourteen nests 

 in every tier. Alighting-ledges are provided; 

 but, though these project sufficiently to serve 

 as hand- and foot-holds to aperson climbing to 

 explore the nests, a potence was formerly pre- 

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