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The Church Heraldry of North Wiltshire. 



In domestic architecture few counties are so rich as Wiltshire. 

 In the northern part of the county nearly every parish can shew 

 specimens of the fifteenth and sixteenth century small manor house, 

 with long low gabled front, two-storied porch, hall and solar, lighted 

 by stone-mullioned windows. There also several examples of the 

 larger and more stately mansions, especially those of South Wraxall, 

 with a good deal of later adaptation. I may also mention Great 

 Chaldfield and the Duke's House, at Bradford, all of which we are 

 to inspect, Norrington, Charlton, Corsham, Littlecot, and many 

 more. The still larger and more magnificent houses of Wilton, 

 Longleat, and Longford, and others, have few rivals in any part of 

 England. The town houses of Salisbury, the Audley Mansion now 

 the Church House, the Hall of John Halle, and others, more or 

 less mutilated, are excellent illustrations of the domestic life of our 

 civic forefathers. 



Naturally the examples of later architecture are more abundant, 

 but earlier examples are not wanting. The fourteenth century 

 houses at Stanton St. Quentin ; Place Farm, Tisbury ; Woodlands, 

 Mere; and the Barton Farm,, at Bradford, with its noble barn, 

 deserve the most careful examination. 



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By Aethue Schombeeg. 

 (Continued from Vol. xxiii., p. 313. 



HUNDRED OF SWANBOROUGH. 

 WOODBOROUGH. 



North Aisle. 



330. I. — Or, three cinquefoils sable, impaling, argent, a fess 

 crenely, between six fleurs-de-lys barwise, gules. 



