House and Garden 
the plaster which defaced it now shows. The 
corbels, all different in design, are remarkable 
for their originality and spirit, notably the carvings 
representing a man blowing a horn, and a rabbit 
chewing a pea-pod. 
The house is lull of memorials of the Civil Wars, 
old armour, swords, cannon-balls, and dented 
cuirasses. I'he walls are adorned with family 
and historical portraits. The heroes of the Civil 
War gaze at us from the canvas. Royalists and 
Parliamentarians alike, now in godly union and 
concord, Charles I., Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, 
William, Viscount Saye and Sele or “Old Subtlety,” 
Oliver Cromwell, John Hampden, Nathaniel 
Fiennes, Lord Falkland, Pym, John Fiennes, are 
all there, and perhaps leave their frames on some 
ghostly evenings, and discuss their fights over 
again. 
In the little church hard by the lords of the 
castle lie at rest. It is a very beautiful resting 
place, principally of the Decorated period. Sir 
Gilbert Scott used to say that the west window 
of the aisle was the best fourteenth century window 
he had ever seen anywhere for beauty and fair 
proportions. The nave is Early English, and the 
chancel screen is of stone of Decorated style. The 
roof and clerestory are of fifteenth century date. 
The tower and spire are very good examples of 
Decorated work, beautifully, but simply propor¬ 
tioned. Within there is almost a wilderness of 
monuments. A splendid canopied ^ monument 
records the memory of Sir T. Wykeham and Vlar- 
garet his wife. The De Broughtons all lie there, 
and many of the Saye and Seles, the lord who fell 
at Barnet, and “Old Subtlety” and many of his 
successors. 
The gardens of Broughton are an attractive 
and charming feature of the old castle. They 
were created by Lady Algernon Lennox, who now 
resides in the ancestral home of the Lords Saye 
and Sele, and are a witness to her taste and sense 
of beauty. Situated between the castle and the 
moat, the carefully trimmed hedge of box with 
the quaintly-cut figures of birds, the wealth of 
old-fashioned flowers, and the sweet formal char¬ 
acter of the garden harmonize well with the old 
grey walls of the castle. An attractive feature 
of the garden is the large sun-dial with the hours 
marked in a circle in the midst of the wide spread 
lawn. May the dial only mark happy hours for 
the Lord and Lady of Broughton. 
Broughton Castle, with its little church, presents 
many features of special historical interest, and 
remains to this day a well-nigh perfect specimen 
of English domestic architecture of the fourteenth 
century. 
HOUSE OF BARTRAM, THE BOTANIST, PHILADELPHIA 
'Dranun by Jonathan Ring 
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