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DOMESTIC, OR CIVIL ARCHITECTURE.
101
Mary,* daughter of Henry VII. who first married Lewis XII. King of France,
and afterwards Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. I do not find any other
circumstance to shew the Duke's connection with this house. By a mural mo-
nument in the church, it appears that a family named Crofts, possessed the
manor in the time of Edward III. It afterwards belonged to the abbots of Bury,
and after the dissolution to the Kitson's, Bacon's, Proger's, and Fowke's :f at
present it belongs to the Marquis Cornwallis, who has a seat at Culford, near
this place. West-Stow-Hall was formerly decorated with a large collection of
armour. The building is now much reduced in size, and appropriated to a farm-
house. In the annexed view, the embattled pediments, diamond-shaped tracery,
and finial statues, are chiefly entitled to notice, as rather curious and unusual
peculiarities.
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SUFFOLK,
Is the property and seat of William Monnock, Esq. in whose ancestors
the estate has been vested ever since the time of Henry the Sixth. It was
then purchased by Philip Monnock, who, as appears by the family pedigree, had
previously resided at Stoke, in the vicinity, in the church of which there are
some ancient inscriptions relating to different persons of the family. The gateway,
represented in the annexed print, is said to have been built, in the beginning of
Henry the Eighth's reign, by Peter Gifford, Esq. who was a distant relation of
Anne Bullen : but, though its style is of that era, and the mansion was probably
then erected, yet it is not likely to have been raised by a Gifford, if the Mon-
nocks then possessed it. The house surrounds a quadrangular court, to which
* She was the third wife of the Duke of Suffolk, and died at Westhorp, in Suffolk, June 25, 1533. See
Sandford's Genealogical History, ch. viii. The noble mansion at Westhorp has been demolished : and Martin,
the historian of Thetford, laments the wanton destruction of it, in a pathetic manner. See Gough's Camden,
vol. ii. p. 91, edit. 1789. As West-Stow is in the vicinity of the ducal mansion, it is not improbable that a
relation, or person in the retinue, of the Duke was the builder of this hall.
f Sir Sydenham Fowke married an heiress of the Progers, and then made the hall at West-Stow his seat.
His monument is in the parish church.
O. VOL. II.
101
Mary,* daughter of Henry VII. who first married Lewis XII. King of France,
and afterwards Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. I do not find any other
circumstance to shew the Duke's connection with this house. By a mural mo-
nument in the church, it appears that a family named Crofts, possessed the
manor in the time of Edward III. It afterwards belonged to the abbots of Bury,
and after the dissolution to the Kitson's, Bacon's, Proger's, and Fowke's :f at
present it belongs to the Marquis Cornwallis, who has a seat at Culford, near
this place. West-Stow-Hall was formerly decorated with a large collection of
armour. The building is now much reduced in size, and appropriated to a farm-
house. In the annexed view, the embattled pediments, diamond-shaped tracery,
and finial statues, are chiefly entitled to notice, as rather curious and unusual
peculiarities.
^tffortrs ©all
SUFFOLK,
Is the property and seat of William Monnock, Esq. in whose ancestors
the estate has been vested ever since the time of Henry the Sixth. It was
then purchased by Philip Monnock, who, as appears by the family pedigree, had
previously resided at Stoke, in the vicinity, in the church of which there are
some ancient inscriptions relating to different persons of the family. The gateway,
represented in the annexed print, is said to have been built, in the beginning of
Henry the Eighth's reign, by Peter Gifford, Esq. who was a distant relation of
Anne Bullen : but, though its style is of that era, and the mansion was probably
then erected, yet it is not likely to have been raised by a Gifford, if the Mon-
nocks then possessed it. The house surrounds a quadrangular court, to which
* She was the third wife of the Duke of Suffolk, and died at Westhorp, in Suffolk, June 25, 1533. See
Sandford's Genealogical History, ch. viii. The noble mansion at Westhorp has been demolished : and Martin,
the historian of Thetford, laments the wanton destruction of it, in a pathetic manner. See Gough's Camden,
vol. ii. p. 91, edit. 1789. As West-Stow is in the vicinity of the ducal mansion, it is not improbable that a
relation, or person in the retinue, of the Duke was the builder of this hall.
f Sir Sydenham Fowke married an heiress of the Progers, and then made the hall at West-Stow his seat.
His monument is in the parish church.
O. VOL. II.