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Allan Fea. Nooks and Corners of Old England
Nooks and Corners of Old England
Table of Contents
NOOKS IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE. AND NORTH NORTHANTS
SOME SUFFOLK NOOKS
NOOKS IN NORFOLK
NOOKS IN WARWICKSHIRE AND. BORDERLAND
SOME NOOKS IN WORCESTERSHIRE. AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE
NOOKS IN NORTHERN. WILTSHIRE
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN. SOMERSET
IN WESTERN SOMERSET
IN DEVON AND DORSET
HERE AND THERE IN SALOP. AND STAFFORDSHIRE
IN NORTHERN DERBYSHIRE
NOOKS IN YORKSHIRE
INDEX
Footnote
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Allan Fea
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In the churchyard of East Bergholt, near Flatford, is a curious, deep-roofed wooden structure, a cage containing the bells, which are hung upside down. Local report says that his Satanic Majesty had the same objection to the completion of the sacred edifices that he had for Cologne Cathedral, consequently the tower still remains conspicuous by its absence. The "Hare and Hounds" Inn has a finely moulded plaster ceiling. It is worthy of note that the Folkards, an old Suffolk family, have owned the inn for upwards of six generations.
Little and Great Wenham both possess interesting manor-houses: the former particularly so, as it is one of the earliest specimens of domestic architecture in the kingdom, or at least the first house where Flemish bricks were used in construction. For this reason, no doubt, trippers from Ipswich are desirous of leaving the measurements of their boots deep-cut into the leads of the roof with their initials duly recorded. Naturally the owner desires that some discrimination be now shown as to whom may be admitted. The building is compact, with but few rooms; but the hall on the first floor and the chapel are in a wonderfully good state of repair,—indeed the house would make a much more desirable residence than many twentieth-century dwellings of equal dimensions. Great Wenham manor-house is of Tudor date, with pretty little pinnacles at the corners of gable ends which peep over a high red-brick wall skirting the highroad.
