Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs (1916) (14761768014)

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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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ly entered Stanton. The church,originally built by the monks of Winchcombe in the twelfthcentury, retains its Norman arcade on the north side of thenave, but the rest is of later date. One of its most remarkablefeatures is the west window of the fifteenth century south aisle :it has two transoms in its upper part, thus forming two tiers ofsmaller lights above the larger lower ones. The effect is sogood that the architect responsible for the recent restorationhas inserted two copies of this window in the south wall of thesame aisle. The estates owned by the great Mercian monasteries in theCotswolds were enormous. As Broadway belonged to Pershore,Buckland to Gloucester, and Stanton to Winchcombe, soStanway belonged to Tewkesbury, and here its abbots had acountry house. No situation within such easy distance couldhave been belter chosen. Tewkesbury lies low in llie vale, andin winter time was much exixxsed to fogs and floods. Stanwayis from two to three hundred feet higher, and could bid
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Stanton, with IVarren House. Q 2 228 WINCIICOMBE CH. ix defiance to the waters, while at the same time it is shelteredfrom the north and east by the steep background of hillthat rises immediately behind the village. For recreation,too, there was the hunting of the stag, which then and muchlater was as wild on these hills as it is on Exmoor to-day;indeed, throughout the country it was only the clearing offorests, the progress of enclosures, the improvement in farmingand the growth of population, which finally confined thisnoble animal to parks, and put the fox in its place as the beastof the chase. At the dissolution the manor was granted to theTracys of Toddington, and from them in 1771 it passed bymarriage to the family of the Earl of Wemyss. StanwayHouse, the residence of Lord Elcho, is a splendid Jacobeanmansion built by the Tracy of the day. You enter the groundsbeneath an imposing gatehouse with three gables and an oriel,and are at once face to face with the great grey front of t