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few specimens in wood are now to be found : the 

 only one perfect in oak, is at Shrewsbury ; but this 

 form is common in brick and stone gables. 



" The vane, or square flag, is copied from one at 

 Horn church, in Essex. 



" The projecting bow window is taken from one 

 at Norwich ; but the tracery is not uncommon ; a 

 specimen of it in oak still remains at Knowl, in 

 Kent. The tracery of the lower window is copied 

 from a Timber House, at Coventry, and is, also, not 

 uncommon, such forms being preferred to those more 

 rare or fanciful. 



" The general outline of all the windows is taken 

 from an earlier date than the end of the reign of 

 Henry VIII. ; before, they were divided by a cross 

 bar, which did not prevail in wood till the reign of 

 Edward VI., Elizabeth, and the 17th century. 



44 The design for the porch is from various speci- 

 mens of open porches, and particularly the cloisters 

 of several alms houses, of which a fragment remains 

 at Clapton, near Lea Bridge. 



<c The door is after one remaining at Sudbury, in 

 Suffolk ; and the handle did belong to the Vestry 

 Door of Sail Church, in Norfolk. 



" The ornamented shafts of the chimnies are 

 taken from some of those which are in perfect pre- 

 servation at Wolterton Manor House, near Bansham, 

 in Norfolk, of which very curious building there are 

 now four large plates engraving for the Society of 

 Antiquaries, from drawings by my son, Mr. S. A. 

 Repton, F.A.S.; to whose spirit of enquiry, and 

 knowledge in this style of architecture, the erection 



