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THE COURTS, TERRACES, WALKS hi
on the garden side. The other three terraces
are formed with a grass slope to the gardens
and flights of steps in the centre of every side.
At Brickwall there is a rather unusual variation.
There is no terrace in front of the house, but
a paved brick path with flights of six steps at
either end communicates with a raised walk 8.9
wide, which runs round the other three sides of
the garden. The garden itself is raised three
steps above the level of the path in front of the
house. Raised walls, as described above, are
shown in Logan's views of Corpus Christi,
Cambridge, and Balliol and Oriel at Oxford.
Bowling-greens were usually surrounded by
raised terraces, and in important gardens terraces
or causeways were sometimes laid out across the
middle of the garden to enable the parterres to
be properly seen. There is a good instance of
this in the Privy Garden at Hampton Court,
and another at Packwood. Switzer says these
terraces should be raised between 2.6 and 3.6
above the garden. The terrace at Risley, in
Derbyshire, is at some distance from the house,
and runs along one side of the garden and
beyond it. The terrace is separated from the
garden by a long narrow piece of water, which
was probably dug out to form the terrace.
The terrace rises some 9 feet above this water,
with a retaining wall of masonry and a heavy
stone balustrade above it. It is reached from
the garden by a flight of seven steps rising over
on the garden side. The other three terraces
are formed with a grass slope to the gardens
and flights of steps in the centre of every side.
At Brickwall there is a rather unusual variation.
There is no terrace in front of the house, but
a paved brick path with flights of six steps at
either end communicates with a raised walk 8.9
wide, which runs round the other three sides of
the garden. The garden itself is raised three
steps above the level of the path in front of the
house. Raised walls, as described above, are
shown in Logan's views of Corpus Christi,
Cambridge, and Balliol and Oriel at Oxford.
Bowling-greens were usually surrounded by
raised terraces, and in important gardens terraces
or causeways were sometimes laid out across the
middle of the garden to enable the parterres to
be properly seen. There is a good instance of
this in the Privy Garden at Hampton Court,
and another at Packwood. Switzer says these
terraces should be raised between 2.6 and 3.6
above the garden. The terrace at Risley, in
Derbyshire, is at some distance from the house,
and runs along one side of the garden and
beyond it. The terrace is separated from the
garden by a long narrow piece of water, which
was probably dug out to form the terrace.
The terrace rises some 9 feet above this water,
with a retaining wall of masonry and a heavy
stone balustrade above it. It is reached from
the garden by a flight of seven steps rising over