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PARSONAGE HOUSE, GREAT SNORING, NORFOLK.
octagonal buttresses are remarkably neat; and tbe chimneys are beautiful.
Fig. A. shews one of the pinnacles of the gable at large; the plan of the same
is given at B ; and a section of the coping at C.
Plate III. — Front Porch of Thorpland Hall.
No. 1. Elevation of the door and the lower part of the porch, over which
is a small chamber.
No. 2. Section of the same, taken in the centre, through the whole projec-
tion, shewing one of the benches on the sides.
No. 3. Plan of the porch.
The door is hung in a massive frame of oak, moulded in a corresponding
style with the masonry. The original door remains unaltered, and retains
the old knocker and handle. The door itself is quite plain.
No. 4. gives the plan of one jamb of the front arch, and an elevation of
the same, as it appears within the doorway.
All these details are worthy of examination, in order to a complete
knowledge of our old domestic architecture, of which the remains are every
day growing more and more rare.
PLATE, No. 74, 75.
THE PARSONAGE HOUSE.
AT GREAT SNORING, NORFOLK.
This village of Great Snoring is situated in the immediate vicinity of East
Barsham and Thorpland, and exhibits another remarkable piece of ancient
domestic architecture, in the rectory, or parsonage-house, here represented.
The peculiar style of the building shews it to have been erected in the reign
of Henry VIII.; and from the shells and tuns carved on the windows and
other parts, we may infer that its founder was of the family of Shelton, such
quaint devices being often seen in buildings of that period.
The manor of Snoring came into the possession of Sir Ralph Shelton,
of Shelton, in Norfolk, on the death of his cousin, Hugh de Burgolyon, in
the reign of Edward III. It continued in the same family until the year
PARSONAGE HOUSE, GREAT SNORING, NORFOLK.
octagonal buttresses are remarkably neat; and tbe chimneys are beautiful.
Fig. A. shews one of the pinnacles of the gable at large; the plan of the same
is given at B ; and a section of the coping at C.
Plate III. — Front Porch of Thorpland Hall.
No. 1. Elevation of the door and the lower part of the porch, over which
is a small chamber.
No. 2. Section of the same, taken in the centre, through the whole projec-
tion, shewing one of the benches on the sides.
No. 3. Plan of the porch.
The door is hung in a massive frame of oak, moulded in a corresponding
style with the masonry. The original door remains unaltered, and retains
the old knocker and handle. The door itself is quite plain.
No. 4. gives the plan of one jamb of the front arch, and an elevation of
the same, as it appears within the doorway.
All these details are worthy of examination, in order to a complete
knowledge of our old domestic architecture, of which the remains are every
day growing more and more rare.
PLATE, No. 74, 75.
THE PARSONAGE HOUSE.
AT GREAT SNORING, NORFOLK.
This village of Great Snoring is situated in the immediate vicinity of East
Barsham and Thorpland, and exhibits another remarkable piece of ancient
domestic architecture, in the rectory, or parsonage-house, here represented.
The peculiar style of the building shews it to have been erected in the reign
of Henry VIII.; and from the shells and tuns carved on the windows and
other parts, we may infer that its founder was of the family of Shelton, such
quaint devices being often seen in buildings of that period.
The manor of Snoring came into the possession of Sir Ralph Shelton,
of Shelton, in Norfolk, on the death of his cousin, Hugh de Burgolyon, in
the reign of Edward III. It continued in the same family until the year