BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



Farnham Rectory, near Bishops Stortford, built 

 chiefly of wood, and of sufficient antiquity to 

 have bestowed the name of Dovecote Pond 

 upon a neighbouring piece of water. 



Suffolk must be passed over with the bare 

 mention of the so-called "dovecote," the re- 

 mains of which will be seen among the abbey 

 ruins at Bury St. Edmunds. It would be an 

 interesting example had we any proof that it 

 was ever applied to the purpose suggested by 

 its common local name; for it is of that un- 

 usual shape, a hexagon. But no such eyidence 

 exists. About twenty feet of the tower remain, 

 the length of each wall of the hexagon being 

 nine feet six inches. The walls are two feet 

 six inches thick; at a height of about ten feet are 

 the remains of a perpendicular window. Of any 

 sign that it was formerly a dovecote there is 

 none. 



