An Old English Home and Its Dependencies

by Sabine Baring-Gould

AN OLD ENGLISH HOME.

AN

OLD ENGLISH HOME

AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

BY

S. BARING-GOULD

 

ILLUSTRATED BY F. BLIGH BOND

 

METHUEN & CO.

36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.

LONDON

1898

CONTENTS
 

Chapter			page
I.		Paternal Acres	1
II.		The Manor House	29
III.		The Domestic Hearth	49
IV.		Old Furniture	68
V.		Ceilings	85
VI.		The Parish Church	98
VII.		The Village Inn	153
VIII.		The Manor Mill	175
IX.		The Farmhouse	190
X.		Cottages	216
XI.		The Village Doctor	243
XII.		Scapegraces	269
XIII.		Hedges	290
XIV.		Underground Rights	307

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	page
An Old English Home	Frontispiece
Marianne's Cottage	3
The Cottage of the "Savages"	11
The Manor House, South Wraxall, Wiltshire	31
Chateau de Tumilhac	41
Battlemented Transom	45
A Chimney-piece (End of Seventeenth Century)	51
The Settle	57
The Chimney-top, Ancient and Modern	63
Fireplace and Chimney-piece, York	65
Chair (1840)	69
Chair (Sixteenth Century)	70
A Chest of Drawers (1652)	75}
The Livery Cupboard	77
Portion of an Old Plaster Ceiling near Leeds	85
The Drawing-room, Dunsland, Devon	87
The Old Pulpit, Kenton	101
The Modern-Gothic Pulpit, Kenton	104
Staverton Rood Screen	131
Inside the Village Inn	155
The Old George Inn, Glastonbury	169
Old Mill in Cornwall	183
Plan of Buildings at Anseremm	193
Anseremme, on the Meuse	197
An Essex Farmhouse	207
Old Cottages at Henbury	219
Wonson Manor	279
Alabaster Slab with Footprints, Vatican, Rome	295
Devonshire Hedges	306