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PARSONAGE HOUSE, GREAT SNORING, NORFOLK.
Plate II. — Door, and other ornamental Details.
No. 1. This door is a very curious piece of workmanship, evidently of a
date coeval with the architecture of the house. The panels are all richly carved,
the small one in the centre bearing the shell and tun, in allusion to the
founder’s name; with on one side, and JHa conjoined on the other,
the abbreviations of Jesus and Mary; shewing it to be of earlier date than
the change of religion.*
No. 2. One of the small niches at the angles of the turret is here shewn
at large, with horizontal sections taken at different heights.
No. 3. Tracery on the turret, in the lower compartment, with the mouldings
at the bottom of the panels.
No. 4. Tracery in the upper part of the turret.
No. 5. Part of the frieze surrounding the turret, with a section of the same. f
The string-course above the panels is similar to that on the bottom of the
upper frieze, the hollow moulding being filled with small shields, each charged
with a cross, and supported by two dogs. The bottom string-course bears the
letters and JM, similar to those on the door.
No. 6. gives the panels on the base of the chimney, and a section of the
string-course over them, at large.
* The larger panels are carved in nearly the same pattern as soine in a room of Beddington
Manor House, Surrey, the ancient seat of the Carew family. — See Pugin’s “ Gothic Ornaments,”
published in 4to. There is also a resemblance to the tracery on the outward front of the gate-
house at East Barsham, above the chamber window.
f The lower frieze at East Barsham is of similar style to this, but does not extend across the.
turrets or buttresses of the front. — See Plates I., V., &c.
PARSONAGE HOUSE, GREAT SNORING, NORFOLK.
Plate II. — Door, and other ornamental Details.
No. 1. This door is a very curious piece of workmanship, evidently of a
date coeval with the architecture of the house. The panels are all richly carved,
the small one in the centre bearing the shell and tun, in allusion to the
founder’s name; with on one side, and JHa conjoined on the other,
the abbreviations of Jesus and Mary; shewing it to be of earlier date than
the change of religion.*
No. 2. One of the small niches at the angles of the turret is here shewn
at large, with horizontal sections taken at different heights.
No. 3. Tracery on the turret, in the lower compartment, with the mouldings
at the bottom of the panels.
No. 4. Tracery in the upper part of the turret.
No. 5. Part of the frieze surrounding the turret, with a section of the same. f
The string-course above the panels is similar to that on the bottom of the
upper frieze, the hollow moulding being filled with small shields, each charged
with a cross, and supported by two dogs. The bottom string-course bears the
letters and JM, similar to those on the door.
No. 6. gives the panels on the base of the chimney, and a section of the
string-course over them, at large.
* The larger panels are carved in nearly the same pattern as soine in a room of Beddington
Manor House, Surrey, the ancient seat of the Carew family. — See Pugin’s “ Gothic Ornaments,”
published in 4to. There is also a resemblance to the tracery on the outward front of the gate-
house at East Barsham, above the chamber window.
f The lower frieze at East Barsham is of similar style to this, but does not extend across the.
turrets or buttresses of the front. — See Plates I., V., &c.