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MANOR-HOUSEj SOUTH WRAXHALL, WILTSHIRE.
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The Entrance Gateway.
Plate VI. Plan and Elevation. This seems to have been built in the
early part of the reign of Henry VIII., subsequent to the acquisition of the
Manor of Draycot Cerne by Sir Thomas Long, as the badge borne by the
possessors of that Manor, the MarshaVs lock or Fetter-locJc, is still remaining
on one of the terminations of the label—viz. that to the left; on the other was
a stag’s heacl, as we are told by Aubrey, and not as shewn in the Plate. On the
corbelling of the oriel window is a shield, bearing the arms of Long. The
angle buttresses are peculiar, and very pleasing in effect. On entering the
archway, to the right is a Staircase leading up to the room above; further on
is a doorway, which formerly was a foot entrance into the court, corresponding
with the one on the left, wliich entered from the road. This gateway has been
added to, as the original roof extends only to the length of fourteen feet, while
it now measures upwards of thirty feet; on the apex of the gable has been a
jinial.
Plate VII. Longitudinal Section and First-Floor Plan. The original roof
is here shewn: on the plan, the darker tint shews the extent of the old walls,
enclosing the Porter's Dwelling.
Plate VIII. Elevation and Section of the Oriel Window. Above the battle-
ments has originally been a roofing of water-tables, finished, probably, by
some ornament or armorial bearing, as at Chalfield and other places; it is, at
present, quite flat, as the dark tint shews. This window is provided with a
stone seat and elbows, and was originally full of painted glass. The details are
shewn in
Plate IX. On the left are Plans at three different heights; in the centre
of the Plate is the shield at large, bearing a lion rampant on a field seme of
cross crosslets, the original arms of Long; also the angle-jambs and mullions,
and the termincition of the label over the archway, on which is carved the
marshaV's-lock; to the right is a section of the cornice, the corbel-mouldings,
and the arcli-mouldings below, together with an exterior and interior elevation
of one of the lights, and a section of the basement moulding: all at large.
63
The Entrance Gateway.
Plate VI. Plan and Elevation. This seems to have been built in the
early part of the reign of Henry VIII., subsequent to the acquisition of the
Manor of Draycot Cerne by Sir Thomas Long, as the badge borne by the
possessors of that Manor, the MarshaVs lock or Fetter-locJc, is still remaining
on one of the terminations of the label—viz. that to the left; on the other was
a stag’s heacl, as we are told by Aubrey, and not as shewn in the Plate. On the
corbelling of the oriel window is a shield, bearing the arms of Long. The
angle buttresses are peculiar, and very pleasing in effect. On entering the
archway, to the right is a Staircase leading up to the room above; further on
is a doorway, which formerly was a foot entrance into the court, corresponding
with the one on the left, wliich entered from the road. This gateway has been
added to, as the original roof extends only to the length of fourteen feet, while
it now measures upwards of thirty feet; on the apex of the gable has been a
jinial.
Plate VII. Longitudinal Section and First-Floor Plan. The original roof
is here shewn: on the plan, the darker tint shews the extent of the old walls,
enclosing the Porter's Dwelling.
Plate VIII. Elevation and Section of the Oriel Window. Above the battle-
ments has originally been a roofing of water-tables, finished, probably, by
some ornament or armorial bearing, as at Chalfield and other places; it is, at
present, quite flat, as the dark tint shews. This window is provided with a
stone seat and elbows, and was originally full of painted glass. The details are
shewn in
Plate IX. On the left are Plans at three different heights; in the centre
of the Plate is the shield at large, bearing a lion rampant on a field seme of
cross crosslets, the original arms of Long; also the angle-jambs and mullions,
and the termincition of the label over the archway, on which is carved the
marshaV's-lock; to the right is a section of the cornice, the corbel-mouldings,
and the arcli-mouldings below, together with an exterior and interior elevation
of one of the lights, and a section of the basement moulding: all at large.