BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



stone, with walls three feet thick, a tiled roof, 

 and crow-stepped gables. It stands in a market 

 garden, where may be seen some traces of a 

 former castle. 



Here, then, our present quest must end. 

 Should this slight and imperfect survey of ex- 

 isting British dovecotes bring about an increase 

 of interest in these buildings, and lead to the 

 more careful preservation of the many which 

 now stand, forlorn, forgotten, and neglected, up 

 and down the land, then the chief object of this 

 little volume will have been attained. 



