DOI Heft:
No. 174 (September, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Ashbee, Charles R.: The "Norman Chapel" buildings at Broad Campden, in Gloucestershire
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0332
The Norman Chapel Buildings at Broad Campden
new roof on top (see pp. 290 and 291, No. 2),
and hung the old roof, shown on p. 293 (right-
hand illustration), on to the new.
Passing now to the new work. This is best
shown in the illustrations on pp. 289, 294, and
295. Of these the first shows the approach from
the road, the new gable appearing over a yew
hedge, which, it should be added, has not yet
reached the desired height and form, but with care
and time (perhaps fifteen years !) will grow into the
hoped-for design. The next, which is also yet
in embryo, shows the flagged pavement that leads
to the house, leaving the new wing, in which are
kitchens and offices, on the right. New, also, is
the little stone porch where Mr. W. Hart has
carved for me a fine oaken corbel—a dragon
carrying a lantern from its iron tongue, so that the
visitor on winter nights shall not inhospitably
stumble.
The house itself stands in about two acres of
garden and orchard, and thus there has been scope
for the forming of a rather beautiful garden, upon
which we are still at work. The drawing repro-
duced on p. 295 shows this looking up from the
rock garden past the pergola, rose garden, and
enclosed kitchen garden beyond, while the new
wing is seen above the trees by the tennis lawn.
The bulk of the work in this building was done
for me by the Guild of Handicraft, and I think
Mr. J. W. Pyment, the foreman, is to be much
commended for the thoughtful and sympathetic
manner in which he has, over a period of eighteen
months, handled the various details and problems
of the work ; he is responsible not only for most
of the structure of the building, but also for the
furniture shown in the drawings, most of which
was made in his workshop and in character with
the house.
A word should be added about the metal work.
This is for the most part beautiful Sinhalese crafts-
manship, some of it richly damascened by native
workmen. Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, for whom
I have had the privilege of working, and who now
lives in the house, sent this over from Ceylon.
He has also added many other splendid and
beautiful Oriental treasures, and his collection of
Sinhalese arts and crafts, upon a history of which
he is at present engaged, is curiously fitted to the
new roof on top (see pp. 290 and 291, No. 2),
and hung the old roof, shown on p. 293 (right-
hand illustration), on to the new.
Passing now to the new work. This is best
shown in the illustrations on pp. 289, 294, and
295. Of these the first shows the approach from
the road, the new gable appearing over a yew
hedge, which, it should be added, has not yet
reached the desired height and form, but with care
and time (perhaps fifteen years !) will grow into the
hoped-for design. The next, which is also yet
in embryo, shows the flagged pavement that leads
to the house, leaving the new wing, in which are
kitchens and offices, on the right. New, also, is
the little stone porch where Mr. W. Hart has
carved for me a fine oaken corbel—a dragon
carrying a lantern from its iron tongue, so that the
visitor on winter nights shall not inhospitably
stumble.
The house itself stands in about two acres of
garden and orchard, and thus there has been scope
for the forming of a rather beautiful garden, upon
which we are still at work. The drawing repro-
duced on p. 295 shows this looking up from the
rock garden past the pergola, rose garden, and
enclosed kitchen garden beyond, while the new
wing is seen above the trees by the tennis lawn.
The bulk of the work in this building was done
for me by the Guild of Handicraft, and I think
Mr. J. W. Pyment, the foreman, is to be much
commended for the thoughtful and sympathetic
manner in which he has, over a period of eighteen
months, handled the various details and problems
of the work ; he is responsible not only for most
of the structure of the building, but also for the
furniture shown in the drawings, most of which
was made in his workshop and in character with
the house.
A word should be added about the metal work.
This is for the most part beautiful Sinhalese crafts-
manship, some of it richly damascened by native
workmen. Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, for whom
I have had the privilege of working, and who now
lives in the house, sent this over from Ceylon.
He has also added many other splendid and
beautiful Oriental treasures, and his collection of
Sinhalese arts and crafts, upon a history of which
he is at present engaged, is curiously fitted to the